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   Maybe someone from Atariland knows or knows where the information is,   
   since we could read IBM/PC floppies...   
      
   When the 3.5 floppy first appeared, in the PC world, if you had the   
   right drive and the computer's BIOS supported it, you could format a   
   floppy to 3 densities, 720k, 1.2mb, and 1.44mb.   
      
   You also had disks formatted by Windows95 and after, plus some disks   
   that were IBM formatted.   
      
   I'm trying to find out the difference between the Windows format and the   
   IBM format.   
      
   Why?  I need to upgrade the BIOS on an old Gateway computer, and the   
   instructions specify the floppy used *must* be an IBM formatted floppy.   
     If you use a Windows formatted floppy, the update will fail.   
      
   Anyone know/remember the difference?   
      
   So far, asking the right questions in the right places in the PC world,   
   and Googling and Ask.com, have not come up with the answer.  :-(   
      
      
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