
Its faster to just erase/invalidate the partition, create a new partition, and MAYBE verify sectors instead of doing a real format and then verifying. I prefer the 35 pass called Gutmann method. The only way to truly erase a disk is to have it do a 0 write pass.

I would hope that this utility, DiskPart, issuing its "clean" command actually does more than clear the data partition info. It's possible to recover the data with a little work, primarily on the "folders." Format just basically wipes the file data/directory/folder content, not the data elsewhere on the drive. If your disks have previously been written in a genuine 360K drive, this is unlikely to be successful, because the width of the track written by a 1.2M drive head is about half the width of a 360K head track, so it will never completely erase the original data. While I cannot guarantee this article does exactly what it claims it does (I haven't tried it, let alone heard about this way before) I can speak for the way format works now days.ĭrives come pretty much preformatted now days as to its sectors and such. PianoSoft floppy disks from Yamaha using their ESEQ proprietary format cannot be seen by your computer because nothing is written on boot sector of the disk. Convert a 1.44MB Floppy to 720K: In this Instructable I will tell you how to covert a 1.44MB floppy disk to 720K format (MB Megabytes, K Kilobytes).

21240634 said:Am I missing something? Couldn't you just bring up a command prompt and type "format e:" - or some other drive letter? Un disco floppy virtuale è unimmagine del disco memorizzata come file sul disco rigido del tuo computer.
