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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: orb85750 on November 16, 2010, 07:39:11 PM
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Utilities that will scan the full floppy disk? Will copy-protected software show disk errors even if the disks are actually fine?
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What? an ENTIRE floppy disk... that could take... minutes...
hehe, sorry... checkout xCopyIII
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diskdoctor lol.
(Seriously, dont use diskdoctor)
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Man, there's a tool I've not seen in a long time. Thankfully. I think that thing caused more problems than it ever fixed!
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diskdoctor lol.
(Seriously, dont use diskdoctor)
I remember diskdoctor for the C64. I didn't even know it was available for Amiga.
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I remember diskdoctor for the C64. I didn't even know it was available for Amiga.
I think it meant "doctor" as in the verb. Certainly it made a right hash of the one or two floppies I tried it on :)
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I think it meant "doctor" as in the verb. Certainly it made a right hash of the one or two floppies I tried it on :)
hahahahahaha! I never thought of it as verb!
seemed to me like 50% of the time, DiskDoctor did nothing
25% of the time it would mangle your disk even more
5% It'd rename it "Lazarus", and you'd be able to get a couple files off.
maybe.
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oh your tauting me arent you...
no seriously use disc salv 2 of the aminet exellent program oh how did it again someone dave hayie belive something to do with amiga ;-(
http://aminet.net/disk/salv
and this link for yourself
http://www.motogp.com/en/photos/paddock+girls#Paddock-Girls-at-the-Gran-Premio-de-la-comunitat-Valenciana-517202
oh dont touch the disk doctor nasty
l repaired well l salavaged 2 wb 3.0 floppy disks used disc salv 2 and then recopyed the files to new floppys and pesto
installed the wb 3 nice...
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OK, but to ask again, will a scan of a working copy-protected commercial disk show errors?
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OK, but to ask again, will a scan of a working copy-protected commercial disk show errors?
No. The whole disk will look like gibberish to the program.
EDIT: or the disk may look like it's full of errors even though its fine. I think most custom disks bypassed the trackdisk.device
or something like that...
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Disk Salv V4 is great. BUT, I don't know about using it on copy protected disks since some of the protection schemes were rather basic errors (and some not so basic)
Try making a copy of the protected disk, and run Disk Salv 4 on the copy would be my suggestion...
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OK, but to ask again, will a scan of a working copy-protected commercial disk show errors?
It can. However the first track must be valid or else the disk wouldn't be bootable. Assuming a custom trackloader is used the rest of the disk can be in whatever format the HW can read (the limitations are only set by the MFM coding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Frequency_Modulation))