[Coco] Read Coco floppies in my PC

[Bill]

So you think I need to build a little Win98 box?

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From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Chad H
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 11:48 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Read Coco floppies in my PC

Your problem I think is Xp....I just tried formatting a 360k disk in my xp
pc that has a 1.2mb floppy and also get error...it will read/write 360k pc
formatted disks fine, but not FORMAT them itself... The Win '98 pc DOES
format 360k disks perfectly with its 1.2 mb drive.  Also the other floppy
now in my xp machine used to be in a 98 box and it formatted 360k perfectly
then

Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

>Bill wrote:
>> The drives I just got are 1.2Mb, and I have tried several times to format
a
>> 360K disk, but for some reason it won't let me. I type in the command
format
>> b: /f:360 (which SHOULD work), but it gives me an error message.
>>
>> Has ANYONE been successful formatting a 360K disk in XP with a  1.2Mb
drive?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>There is no point in trying to use WinXP or DOS commands to format disks
that 
>will be used with a Coco or Coco disk format. Besides which, if you have
Coco 
>disks with data on them, why would you want to format them as that would
erase 
>the data?
>
>You want to be able to read/write these disks as Coco disks. Since you have

>WinXP, you can't use any programs that rely on DOS as it does not exist
with WinXP.
>One simple way to access these disks is to use the VCC emulator. However,
you 
>must also have fdrawcmd.sys installed as explained in the VCC "Welcome to 
>VCC.pdf" file.
>
>http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd
>
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