Transferring files between amiga and PC is another topic, and there using PC formatted 720KB floppies with CrossDOS is one option, albeit not necessarily the best one. If you wish to format any floppies for amiga use, just format them on amiga. Unless if you go for specialized hardware you cannot write or format floppies to amiga format on a PC. Thus you can use amiga to format disks to PC format (720KB or 1.44MB if you have a HD drive), but not the other way around. The PC floppy controller is much more rigid and doesn't allow as flexible track layout as amiga (technical: Amiga can write full tracks with whatever track layout desired, PC controller cannot). Floppy disks store digital data which can be read and written when the disk is inserted into a floppy disk drive ( FDD) connected to or inside a computer or other device. It's perfectly possible to use the higher density floppies in place of the lower density ones. There are however double density (up to 1MB unformatted size) and high density (up to 2MB unformatted size) floppies (some higher density ones do exist as well, but are rather rare). The disks are exactly the same physically. I think there is a lot of confusion in this thread, and not alone from sim085.įirst of all, there are no 'PC' or 'amiga' floppies.

Format a floppy disk