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| | | | Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 22:45 Submitted by: snout Topic: MSX Related | | Source: Gigamix Online
MSXForm, created by Tatsu allows you to format a 2DD floppy disk in Windows 9x, 2000 and XP. You can choose whether you want to format the disk with an MSX-DOS1 or MSX-DOS2 bootsector. Apart from fully formatting the disk you can also just modify the bootsector. This tool is especially interesting for people using Windows XP, as it's quite hard to format 2DD disks in Windows XP.
Relevant link: MSXForm website |
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| By karloch on October 15 2003, 23:19 | Great util, but actually, it is possible to format 2DD floppies in Windows XP, format command have parameters to format 2DD. Konamiman posted on HispaMSX about the format command for XP. Microsoft just hide the 720 KB option, but the capability is still there...
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| By snout on October 15 2003, 23:52 | Ok, I changed that sentence a bit ;P Impossible -> Quite hard.
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| By karloch on October 16 2003, 01:16 | Microsoft indeed sucks...What do they get hidding the 2DD format option?... Will their OS look even worse because of that?...
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| By GuyveR800 on October 16 2003, 01:31 | Not true.
format /f:720 works on Win98, but it really doesn't work on XP. At least not on mine!
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| By Guillian on October 16 2003, 02:32 | I think Karloch is talking about this:
FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:9 /X /V:label /FS:FAT
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| By GuyveR800 on October 16 2003, 02:52 | o.O
ARE YOU SERIOUS?!
/me kicks bill gates in the nuts
There was nothing wrong with /f:720, and they still use it for 1.44 and 2.88 floppies... Unbelievable!
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| By sjoerd on October 16 2003, 11:52 | Wow. Microsoft rules!
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| By karloch on October 16 2003, 17:18 | Yeah, it was just as Guillian said. They just hide/block the /f:720, but it still possible to format floppies with 720KB using that parameters... Microsoft is getting more and more stupid everyday...
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| By Grauw on October 17 2003, 17:01 | Anyways they're not MSX-formatted, and this tool does that aswell, aside from making formatting at 720k easy  .
~Grauw
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| By Grauw on October 17 2003, 17:05 | Anyways they're not MSX-formatted, and this tool does that aswell, aside from making formatting at 720k easy .
~Grauw
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| By manuel on October 17 2003, 19:08 | Note that formatting on PC has two problems:
1) it has the wrong bootsector, which means it will hang your MSX when booting with the floppy inserted (as Grauw also said)
2) the interleaving is not optimal for MSX usage. This will result in a slowdown. In the past I tested this with DOSSCAN.COM: with MSX formatting I get about 17kB/s of speed, and with PC formatting about 10 to 12 kB/s. FYI.
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