how to reformat floppies that have data on them

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 11 April 2007 21:09, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> On 4/11/07, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
> > I don't miss them either, but when you are using an ancient machine to
> > run your Smoothwall firewall on, and the BIOS can't boot from the cdrom,
> > then your stuck with booting from the floppies.
> >
> > I do have another old machine 133Mhz, which IIRC does boot from cdrom.
> > Perhaps I should move the Smoothwall to that. Saying that though it would
> > be nice to resolve the mformat problem that I've having.
>
> So it is not the b: drive?

Definately a: as when running mformat, I get floppy activity, but I/O errors 
as I posted to Rick.
>
> Another option would be to get an ancient 20 MB IDE harddrive just to
> keep the boot info on.

Thats an interesting suggestion. I do have an old 250MB harddrive lying 
around.

>
> /Mike

Nigel.