RE: Explaing the difference in PC vs AS/400 disk... ¤¤¤¤¤¤

["Svensson, Joakim" <joakim.svensson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm...   That special formatting program is in your BIOS. The only
thing you need to do is to change the sector size from 512 to 256 (or
the opposite?), then a FDISK followed by a FORMAT.
I've done it several times, no sweat at all..

/Joakim

Joakim Svensson
IT-Architect
Cap Gemini, Sweden


>-----Original Message-----
>Back when I was doing the F35 -> 510 upgrade, the SE that was helping me
>removed the load-source drives from the F35 and told me that they could be
>reformatted and used in a PC... but they needed a special formatting program
>(that he had, of course).  He offered to reformat all 4 of them, if he could
>keep 2.
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