Alkonost MaxFormat is a small utility which enables to format floppy disks to maximum capacity with maximum efficiency.
MaxFormat can also copy files to diskette after formatting, verify, clear, create bootable diskettes (even with DMF format) and duplicate floppy disks via diskette image with standard and non-standard formats.

MaxFormat can format floppies to the current standard formats for 3.5 inch disks of 1.4MB and 720K, 5.25 inch disks of 1.2MB and 360K, plus additional non-standard formats: 1.72MB and 1.68MB DMF (3.5 inch disks) and 1.5MB (5.25 inch disks).
The DMF (1.68MB) format is often used for distribution floppies under Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT/2000.
MaxFormat determines the type and number of floppy drives on your system and provides very fast formatting as a multi-tasking background operation.
MaxFormat provides the best sectors interleave to increase reading/writing speeds; the 1.44MB diskettes are faster than the diskettes formatted by Windows explorer.

In addition to formatting floppies, MaxFormat can also verify, make bootable under Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP (even with DMF formats!), clear disks, format only when needed, copy files and whole directories to the diskette automatically after formatting and duplicate diskettes with standard and non-standard formats (create the exact "track by track" copies of diskettes).