- Max Disk Formatter
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Max Disk Formatter is a utility program used to format floppy disks, and was often used to format them to nonstandard (larger) sizes. Disks formatted by MDF cannot be used in a conventional manner, even with the standard format size, because of the non-standard file system.
As floppy disks are now not widely used. This program is now obsolete. However, it has one feature that is useful for old computers: it can format diskettes which are not able to be formatted by the standard DOS format program.
Notes
- If BIOS has an information about 5.25 inch drive as A: and not as B: the program may attempt to use an incorrect format.
- Norton Disk Doctor and similar programs do not understand MDF's format, and may try to format the floppy back to a standard filesystem, thus rendering it unusable.
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