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    How to format floppy from DOS

    I have a very little query about formatting a floppy drive. I have seen many people working from windows dos command. And this way is really fast rather than doing the same job from windows explorer. I just wanted to know how can i format a floppy from the MS Dos ? Please let me know soon.

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    Re: How to format floppy from DOS

    If you do not want to use Windows Explorer, open up an MS-DOS window. At the prompt, type "dir a:" (without the quotes) to get a directory of the floppy. Make sure you really want to wipe out the data on the disk. If you do, type "format a:." DOS will prompt you to insert a floppy in drive a:. Hit "Enter." You will get feedback as each track is formatted. Again, when the process is complete, you will have an option to format another disk.

    Thats it. Remember that formatting is a destructive act. Once you reformat a drive, you will NOT be able to get the old data back. You can only put data on a formatted drive, but if there is already data there, and you format the disk, the data will be gone.Source: howtodothings

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    Re: How to format floppy from DOS

    You can format a DOS floppy disk using the dosformat command that is
    dosformat drive
    If your floppy drive is A than you need to enter
    dosformat /dev/fd0

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