TS>> floppy being reformatted as a PC floppy on an Apple Macintosh using PC 
TS>> Exchange?
LE>> Not a chance, no way, no how, no sir 8-) If you select 
LE>> "Erase disk", the disk is really formatted. The only way 
KW> what about bootsector viruses... format usually just verifies an
KW> existing format and chucks the fat unless you tell it to do more... are
FORMAT /ALSO/ rewrites the bootsector on the logical volume. Try it and see. 
It will not rewrite the MBR on a hard disk, but it will rewrite the logical 
bootsector on a partition or diskette.
KW> you certain softwindows doesn't do something similar?
Also, if you look above, you will see that the original post mentioned PC 
Exchange, not SoftWindows. PC Exchange is the extension to MacOS (shipped 
with System 7.5 and onwards) which allows the Mac to mount and read DOS 
floppies like ordinary MacOS volumes. It does not provide any facility 
whatsoever to emulate x86 code or the PC environment.
-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards [Team OS/2]  Tel 0412809805 * http://www.zws.com/
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