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Feb 12, 2020 | 2:47 pm

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Originally Posted by gfunkdave

I've tried running MacDisk and it says it can't find the Macintosh volume header. Windows 10 says it's not a valid disk. I am 100% sure that I would have used a Mac to create the disk...my trusty old Mac IIsi running System 7 or System 8.

I think you need a Mac of that era. IIRC, Macs wrote data on FD differently than MS-DOS machines of that day (when Windows ran over MS-DOS). Macs could read and write MS-DOS format FDs but not the other way around.

https://fletcherpenney.net/2018/02/r...c_floppy_disks
https://lowendmac.com/2016/floppy-di...the-mac-world/

Find an old school MUG perhaps?

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