• Move up the list of options to 'Format' and follow the arrow to the right to open
the submenu.
• Either select from the list of RISC OS ADFS floppy disc formats or move to the
bottom option in the list 'Other formats' then open the next submenu to select
from DOS or Atari formats. When you have found the type of format you wish
to apply to the floppy disc, click SELECT on that option. You may also give the
floppy disc a name or label by clicking in the box and deleting the
• If you are presented with an error message saying "The disc is write protected.
Move the write-protect tab and try again." then you should do just that.
As the floppy disc is being formatted the process window will show a red progress bai which,
once completed, will then be followed by a green progress bar as it verifies the formatted
disc.
Once both cycles have completed you are prompted to click on the 'OK' button to finish the
format procedure.
Floppy disc formats' and storage sizes
Floppy discs are limited in that they have a small capacity (less than 2MegaBytes) and they
are quite slow at accessing the information stored on them but they are useful for their
portability in that you can use them to transfer information from one computer to another.
There are two main types of floppy disc: high-density (HD) and double-density (DD). Quite
simply, high-density discs can be formatted to a higher capacity than double-density discs.
WARNING: Only format high-density discs to high-density formats
and low-density disc to low-density formats.
You should not 'cross-format' (under-format or over-format). This means that if you have
double-density floppy discs you should not try to format them to a high-density format. If
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