Unconditionally formats a standard 1.44MB floppy disk in drive A:. Windows XP has a problem formatting demagnetized or corrupt diskettes: its format function only checks for diskette to be readable, and does not perform actual formatting if it is not. Format144 is a simple command-line tool that formats disktettes to the most common standard. Source code is realeased under the GNU GPL for study and improvement.

Format144 1.11 has been tested on 2006-10-17 and received a complete evaluation by the Soft32Download experts and due to the great results it has been awarded with the "Clean & Safe" award, meaning that this product is 100% clean of adware/spyware/trojans/viruses and it is safe to install.