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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: mingle on December 01, 2008, 11:05:13 PM

Title: Floppy disk checking/validating program?
Post by: mingle on December 01, 2008, 11:05:13 PM

Just wondering if there's a  program I can use to check the integrity of Amiga floppy disks, without having to load/read the entire contents of the disks?

I have quite a collection of Amiga disks and I'd like to know if they're (and their contents!) all still okay.

Some sort of disk checking tool is what I'm after...

Cheers,

Mike.

Title: Re: Floppy disk checking/validating program?
Post by: adolescent on December 01, 2008, 11:11:58 PM

DiskSalv (http://aminet.net/package/disk/salv/DiskSalv11_32) does that, as well as recovery.  

Edit: Oh, I guess it will have to check the entire disk.  Did you mean manually loading/testing the files, or you wanted something that could see errors without checking all the tracks, directory structure, etc.

Title: Re: Floppy disk checking/validating program?
Post by: weirdami on December 01, 2008, 11:27:36 PM

I'd guess that any program the checks disks would need to check the disk by checking the disk.

Title: Re: Floppy disk checking/validating program?
Post by: mingle on December 02, 2008, 04:52:36 AM

Hi,

Yes, I expect that the entire disk has to be read/scanned - that's fine... I don't mind just popping disks in and out, I just don't want to have the run whatever app/games that's on them to find out if they're working or not...

I'll give DiskSalv a go...

Cheers,

Mike.