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I personally would not trust a reformatted 1.44->2.88 floppy as a backup/archive media. Return-Path: <owner-tp750@CS.UTK.EDU> X-Resent-To: tp750@CS.UTK.EDU ; Sat, 26 Mar 1994 16:21:47 EST From: <meister@cats.ucsc.edu> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 13:21:41 -0800 To: tp750@CS.UTK.EDU Subject: 2.88 fdd Before I went out and bought ED floppies, I tried formatting a generic 1.44 HD disk as a 2.88 disk using Norton Desktop for Windows 3.0. Much to my surprise the disk worked normally in all respects. Since then I have been using reformatted 1.44 disks to back up and archive my data -- which seem to hold nearly 6 mb of data/disk in zipped form. Before proceeding with this, I checked with someone at IBM tech support, who was not surprised. He told me that one can indeed format ordinary HD disks for 2.88 -- but that they are not as reliable for use in transferring data between different machines. (They work best on the drive that formatted them.) Not having access to another 2.88 drive, I have not tested the point. Has any one else tried this? doing it? (There is, I suppose, an element of insecurity if I have to use another 2.88 drive to recover my data, most of which is also on my desktop in any case.) Are there other potential problems that have not occurred to me? The ED disks are rather expensive, and thus far my box of them remains unopened. Bob Meister