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I did this on an Acorn Archimedes disk and though okay at first, the floppy got corrupted after a few days. Bad idea!


The Archimedes would format any floppy to any density, so you didn't need the hole punch.


My point was that formatting a 800kb disk to 1600kb (as you could on the Archimedes) is likely to - and in my experience has - corrupt after a few days of use, and thus is not worth the amount of money saved.

Luckily it was just copied games that got corrupted, but it could have been worse.




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