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Re: [OT] Another floppy question

• Posted by irvm at ellijay.com Jun 11, 2003
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rforno wrote:

> Have you tried to format them from either stand-alone DOS or a
> DOS window in W98 using the /u option (format a: /u)?

Yes, from both - always get the "track 0 - unusable" error.

> There is also a program than can format a floppy with track 0 bad. I'm
> attaching it, although its results are not very satisfactory. It contains C
> source code. Maybe it can be helpful.

Thanks. This works, formatting the bad disks, and marking some tracks 
as  bad. I was then able to copy, and read back, some files, provided  they 
weren't  very large. 

Also, it displays a message something like "don't trust this disk."
I trust they'll wind up in a landfill somewhere....

Regards,
Irv