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OK here's a weird thought, has anybody heard of a way to connect any of the
floppy drives from an Apple IIGS to a pc, so that a person could use them to
write the floppies needed to get the IIGS up and running.

Also in previous post I was wanting to know how to make a pc write the IIGS
disk. Everybody says that it's not possible. Because the PC drive isn't
capable of writing the 800k disk. I'm in a little conflict with that because
I remember back in the Win95 & 98 days there was a utility that would allow
to you write 1.66 meg to a 1.44 meg floppy so that you could copy all the
cab files to a floppy for a floppy installation. The same utility would
allow you to write a 1.44 meg floppy as a 720k floppy to be used in older
equipment if you didn't have any double density disk laying around. I was
wanting to try this utility once again, but I can't for the love of god
remember the name of it, and where I found it. Because I think if I'm not
mistaken it gave you the ability to format the floppy in any size and format
you needed.

Joe wrote:
> OK here's a weird thought, has anybody heard of a way to connect any of the
> floppy drives from an Apple IIGS to a pc, so that a person could use them to
> write the floppies needed to get the IIGS up and running.
>
> Also in previous post I was wanting to know how to make a pc write the IIGS
> disk. Everybody says that it's not possible. Because the PC drive isn't
> capable of writing the 800k disk. I'm in a little conflict with that because
> I remember back in the Win95 & 98 days there was a utility that would allow
> to you write 1.66 meg to a 1.44 meg floppy so that you could copy all the
> cab files to a floppy for a floppy installation. The same utility would
> allow you to write a 1.44 meg floppy as a 720k floppy to be used in older
> equipment if you didn't have any double density disk laying around. I was
> wanting to try this utility once again, but I can't for the love of god
> remember the name of it, and where I found it. Because I think if I'm not
> mistaken it gave you the ability to format the floppy in any size and format
> you needed.

Macintosh and Windows/DOS file formats are fundamentally different. A PC
can't write a Mac file (the opposite is not true) because of there being
two different "forks" on the Mac file, the PC doesn't understand this
technology. There may be some utilities that can do this now, things
have changed a lot since I dealt with it on a daily basis. But at the
time, the only answer for me was to produce my Mac software on a Mac and
produce PC software on a PC. It was a lot easier keeping two different
platforms up and running than try to deal with all the conversions.

As for formatting disks in different sizes, you can do that from the DOS
prompt. http://www.computerhope.com/formathl.htm