how to reformat floppies that have data on them

[Michael Wiktowy]

On 4/11/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens at internap.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 19:29 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > So far so good, but I'm darned if I can get a filesystem on it using mformat,
> > and have tried allsorts of incantations. It would be nice if some of these
> > manpages had a simple example.
>
> "mformat a:" should do it.  mtools use DOS- or Windows-like device
> naming conventions, and "a:" is the floppy.

You could also try b: if you happened to have the drive plugged into
that port in the cable.

I sure don't miss floppy drives ... until I have to do a BIOS update :[

/Mike