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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: mikefr24 on November 28, 2009, 01:04:20 AM

Title: bad floppy disks
Post by: mikefr24 on November 28, 2009, 01:04:20 AM

I have a bunch of old Amiga Floppy's that I have been formatting to use as blank disks.  It seems that many of them get the "bad sector" error during format.  Are these disks now unusable or can I still save them?  I remember on my old PC machines that I could always fix a disk by marking the bad sector and the disk capacity would just get smaller but was still usable.

Title: Re: bad floppy disks
Post by: motrucker on November 28, 2009, 01:24:21 AM

There used to be a program that would do this (map out bad sectors, and format the rest) but I cannot remember the name. Maybe someone here has a better memory...

Title: Re: bad floppy disks
Post by: motrucker on November 28, 2009, 01:30:12 AM

A quick search of aminet, comes up with BFormat4.lha (http://aminet.net/disk/misc/BFormat4.lha) that looks like it fills the bill nicely.

Title: Re: bad floppy disks
Post by: mikefr24 on November 28, 2009, 01:40:24 AM

Thanks.  I'll give that program a try.

Title: Re: bad floppy disks
Post by: mikefr24 on November 28, 2009, 01:56:32 AM

Awesome!  This program works perfectly.  Exactly what I needed.