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First post, by quantum112

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Hello, I'm having issues when I mount my A: floppy drive in DOSBox.
What I am trying to do is format a disk to the old 880KB Commodore Amiga format (if anyone remembers) to be able to read it on an Amiga. From what I've seen there is no Windows utility that can do this. One program I've found that I think could do it is FreeForm 2.3.1. by Herne Data Systems LTD (http://www.herne.com/free.htm). When I mount my floppy using the "mount a A:\ -t floppy" command in DOSbox, the program recognises it as drive A, however under Type: it says "None", and when I try formatting (no matter which format I use), it says "ERROR: Invalid Target Drive".
So I think DOSbox is not properly displaying the floppy drive to the program. Are there any additional shell commands or parameters I could try to change?
Anyone have any idea? Thanks[/url]

Reply 2 of 2, by 5u3

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quantum112 wrote:

What I am trying to do is format a disk to the old 880KB Commodore Amiga format (if anyone remembers) to be able to read it on an Amiga.

This is not possible because of PC hardware limitations.
See here for more information.