MAC floppy

[Robert M]

I understand that on an Apple MAC computer when you format a floppy disk, you can specify a format called MS-DOS if you want.

What happens if you do NOT choose the MS-DOS format, you choose the native format and you then try to format it again in a Windows XP computer (My Computer) running within an NTFS partition?

What is the error message if any?

[Steve R Jones]

Have you by any chance tried this and can tell us what the error message is?

[SuperSparks]

I had a USB drive that was formatted as Ext4, which I wanted to reformat in Windows. Windows would not even acknowledge that the drive was present - no error messages, it just wouldn't show the drive at all. In the end I had to reformat it from Ubuntu. I wouldn't be at all surprised if exactly the same thing happens with that floppy.