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How are floppy drives formatted?

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Anonymous

17y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

The actual floppy drive itself is not formatted. The drive only spins the floppy disk or diskette. One can format a disk or diskette from the computer control panel. Right click on Drive A (for example), then select format and follow the screen prompts.

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