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Smart Format - 3.5" Floppy disk formatter

This utility was written back in 1999. Where was it when I needed it? I've thrown away at least 50 floppies since 1999. This utility promises to reformat most floppy disks that the regular format chokes on. It also will format a 1.44mb disk so that it hold 1.72mb. Now that's a bonus. Quote from the website http://ieeecrce.tripod.com/innovations99/tformat/ Format disks even if they have bad sectors on track zero Format standard 1.44 MB disks for 1.72 MB using standard hardware (Almost 20% gain in capacity). This is achieved without any kind of data compression. No drivers or TSRs need to be installed Verify-Only option for previously formatted floppies speeds up format by about 60% Wipe-Only option serves to quickly and easily clear disks of their contents, even if there are multiple sub-directory levels and errors like cross-linked files and lost clusters. Disks formatted with SmartFormat have less bad (unusable) space than when formatted with DOS or Windows. Rather than the unintelligible hexadecimal numbers used by other format programs for disk serial numbers (like 1B2C-19F4), SmartFormat uses the date and time. For example, a disk formatted at 11:35 PM on 15th September has serial number 2335-1509. User friendly interface. Fully descriptive and easy to understand error messages.

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