Article ID: 106094
Article Last Modified on 11/18/1999
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.2 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q106094
SYMPTOMS
When you run ScanDisk on a 1.44-megabyte (MB) floppy disk that is formatted as a 720-kilobyte (K) disk, you receive the following error:
CAUSE
On some machines running MS-DOS 6.2, you can format a 1.44-MB disk as a 720K disk by using the "format a: /f:720 /u" command.
Whether or not you can format a 1.44-MB disk as a 720K disk depends on the BIOS in your machine.
Additional query words: 6.20
Keywords: KB106094
