floppy disk help

[oilypennys]

hello there yous clever people wonder if yous can help.
extra high density drives (ED) are available although not widly so as a replacement for floppy drives. there formatted capacity is 2.44mb using vertical recording explain how else this capacity might be achieved using any means necessary.
hope someone can help thanx .....oily........

[bassman]

Hello OIly,
Welcome to the Forums.
Gee this sounds an awful lot like a homework question. We don't normaly do your homework for you. I happen to feel that the research aspect of it is as valuable a lesson as the question itself. You might try your local library or a search on Google.com. I have seen it turn up some amazing info.
Again, Welcome and hope we can help you with an actual computer problem in the future.


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[Reid]

Originally posted by oilypennys:
explain how else this capacity might be achieved using any means necessary.


Since the question states "any means", try using Google (http://www.google.com) and search for data compression. There are many programs that can compress data, such as PKZIP and WINZIP. While these programs don't change the physical capacity of the drive, they do reduce file sizes, so that more fits on a disk.

There is a program called FDFORMAT that is able to format a 1.44M floppy to 1.72M, but that probably is not what you are looking for.



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[oilypennys]

thanx bassman but i thought this site was to help i,m trying to do a course and looking for some pointers with thanx to reid for giving that to me not all people are that clever and sometimes just need a wee push in the right direction .

[tjaymadison]

There is some good background information in The PC Guide. Click Here (http://www.pcguide.com/ref/fdd/index.htm).

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[Reid]

You are welcome, Oilypenny. I just thought you didn't have much to go on to jump into a search without a little help.

It also just occurred to me that Windows supplied DoubleSpace and DriveSpace for disk compression. Read more [url=http://www.elementkjournals.com/w98/0007/w980071.htm]here.

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Friends don't let friends install Windows ME

[This message has been edited by Reid (edited 05-10-2001).]

[oilypennys]

thanks to all i have finaly managed to answer my question
but watch this space its hard disks next thanx....oily http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif