With Windows Vista and Windows 7, the situation remains, though now there is the threat on the horizon to remove support for the floppy disk altogether.īut for the moment, despite rumblings from Microsoft saying otherise, it is possible to format floppy disks for the Atari to use, you just have to know how. As it turned out you could still write data, but all formatting options wre removed, so unless you had a program on the ST that would format to PC standards, or a later version of TOS, you had to sacrifice a disk that you knew the PC would read to get information to your platform of choice.
With the launch of Windows XP, it was announced that while XP would read 720K floppy disks, formatting and writing to them was not supported.
But while floppy disks are still available and most floppy drives will read them, many newer operating systems no longer format 720K disks and support is slowly dwindling. The humble floppy disk has powered the Amiga family, Atari ST family, and its successors for years, providing file storage and programs for countless people, along with the ability to move files long before the invention, never mind adoption of USB flash drives. 35_inch_floppy_disks.jpg (11.21 KiB) Viewed 3100 times
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