how to reformat floppies that have data on them

[Michael Wiktowy]

On 4/11/07, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
> I don't miss them either, but when you are using an ancient machine to run
> your Smoothwall firewall on, and the BIOS can't boot from the cdrom, then
> your stuck with booting from the floppies.
>
> I do have another old machine 133Mhz, which IIRC does boot from cdrom. Perhaps
> I should move the Smoothwall to that. Saying that though it would be nice to
> resolve the mformat problem that I've having.

So it is not the b: drive?

Another option would be to get an ancient 20 MB IDE harddrive just to
keep the boot info on.

/Mike