It doesn’t, at least not in any particularly useful way. Because of the position of the density sensor cut-out on ED floppy disks, they’re detected as 720K floppies by HD drives. Their contents can’t be read, butand they can be reformatted as DD disks... They can thencan’t be used as DD disks, with the limitations of DD disks written by HD drives (i.e. they might not work reliablyas explained in DD drives)Michael Karcher’s answer.