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Utilities for DOS (Disk Copy, Format, Defrag, Info Utilities) Ratings: [* fair] to [* * * * * excellent] |
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2mf -Formats
floppies to higher capacities.
Fdformat -Formats
floppies to higher capacities.
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If you want to squeeze a few more files on your 1.44MB floppies - and save a few pennies in the process- 2mf will help. 2mf can reformat a 1.44MB floppy to 1.7 or 1.8MB. These disks are readable/writeable only when running the supplied 2mdos TSR program. You normally can't use these disks on a PC lacking the TSR. Yet each 2mf disk can function as a 2mf boot disk- Simply boot a computer from a 2mf disk- and the TSR is automatically loaded. A pretty nifty feature.
Drawbacks:
An older, similar utility is Fdformat which has better 3rd party support.
download
2m30.zip (2mf)
download
fdform18.zip (Fdformat)
Haven't played with this package of utilities yet. From the documentation:
... a collection of 8 small utilities which will help you use your floppy disks more effectively. Since you probably worry more about how to get better speed and storage out of your hard disk, this may not be a matter of pressing concern to you. However, floppies are going to be used for quite a while and by spending a few minutes with these utilities you can make things go a little bit faster each time you use a floppy. Programs are provided to
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QuikCopy is a 1994 PC Magazine utility that copies entire floppy disks in one pass- the time required to complete this operation is significantly shorter than DOS's own DISKCOPY command. QuikCopy requires XMS memory. Probably doesn't work for Win95 program disks (?).
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This PC Magazine utility was originally published around 1993. I can only recommend it to faithful users of DOS 5.0 (DOS 6.x and OpenDos come bundled with good defrag utilities). I don't know if it works with earlier DOS versions. Defrag is small and has worked flawlessly on the uncompressed portion of my laptop hard drive.
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