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I recently bought two Tandy 1000HX computers to build a tricked out one. I had the first one set up last night and I made a few floppies to play a few games and it didn't work. It has been about 15 years since I have used floppies but I used methods I recalled in the past and it didn't result in the 1000HX being able to read the disks. The 1000HX has a standard 720k 3.5 floppy and the PC being used to make the disks was a modern Windows 7 laptop with an external USB floppy.
procedure was;
1. I had some HD MAC pre-formatted disks, new in box.
2. Put tape over the HD hole
3. Put floppy in drive and formatted using; FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:9
4. Disk completed formatting without error, files were copied to the floppy which could be read just fine in the USB floppy drive
5. Disks could not be read (abort,retry,ignore) in the 1000HX
I'll try formatting them on the HX next, but I don't see why the above would not have worked?
procedure was;
1. I had some HD MAC pre-formatted disks, new in box.
2. Put tape over the HD hole
3. Put floppy in drive and formatted using; FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:9
4. Disk completed formatting without error, files were copied to the floppy which could be read just fine in the USB floppy drive
5. Disks could not be read (abort,retry,ignore) in the 1000HX
I'll try formatting them on the HX next, but I don't see why the above would not have worked?