Navigate to the location of the FMT.EXE file on your HD.

Open a new command prompt by going to Start_>run and typing CMD.

Extract the FMT.EXE file anywhere on your HD in a location you will remember.

Your floppy disk will be formatted as a 720KB Double Density Floppy Disk ready to be read by an Amiga.

Insert your blank floppy disk into the drive.Open a new command prompt by going to Start->run and typing CMD.4 Reading PC formatted Floppy Disks in an Amiga.3 Which method is better? And how do the commands work?.We have now successfully created a copy of our single sided floppy disk. To write this image to disk, insert a new floppy to the drive and in File menu select the 'Write to disk.'. You will need to change the filter (files of type) to All files. In File, select 'Open.' and select our single.img image. For that purpose we are going to use our Disk-Manager tool. Now we have our source disk in image format and we can write it to another disk. Now Read the disk image by clikcing on the Read button in the Drive group and save it as single.img or something similar. Select Logical drive 'A' and see that it will recognise it as single sided disk (360 kB). Start the OmniDiskImg application, that you downloaded before. Now eject the disk and insert it into your PC. Like:Īnd save it to the freshly formatted single sided floppy disk with: On your MSX2 insert an empty floppy disk, that will be our source disk and designated to be formatted single sided (360K).Īnd follow instructions to format the disk single sided.Īfter you are done, just write a simple 'Hello World' program. Download it on I have used the FreeDOS bootable floppy version.įor our test we are going to create a single sided disk on our MSX2 computer and write a simple 'Hello World' in basic, just so we can test if the disk was copied successfully.

We are also going to need OmniDiskImg tool. This can be found on Or by clicking here to directly download this application. We are going to need a tool called Disk-Manager. And actually I am writing this blog on this computer inside Chrome browser, so I guess it is still usable. I still had an old computer with a copy of Windows XP on it. It simply did not want to recognise single sided (360K) formatted floppy disks. The tests that I have done with USB floppy drive failed. To create single sided disks on a PC (Windows XP) we will need a floppy drive that is connected to the FDD controller.

How to format floppy disk