Back in the day, there was a tool that one could punch a hole through the top corner opposing the locking corner to convert a 720k or 800k floppy disk to 1.44 MB. That wasn't guaranteed, but it worked most of the time, right? 
Some questions came to my mind:
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Some questions came to my mind:
- What about physically converting a 1.44 MB floppy disk to 720k or 800k?
- Is there an aesthetically better approach than the red-necked tape solution?
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If you had a 720k or 800k disc, it would still work in the newer drives, but only at. disc, thus allowing newer drives to identify the floppy as a high density one. Users could. reformat the floppy as higher density, and 'presto' you got twice the storage size.
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Convert a 1.44MB Floppy to 720K
Convert a 1.44MB Floppy to 720K: In this Instructable I will tell you how to covert a 1.44MB floppy disk to 720K format (MB = Megabytes, K = Kilobytes). You might be wondering: "Why in the world would I want to convert a high capacity disk into a disk only capable of half it's orig…
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