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Title: Best Format Tool?
Post by: oguzog on April 03, 2018, 06:06:42 PM

I have lots of DD disks.
 
I need a way to format and determine if there is any bad sector?
 
I tried with Xcopy (regular format not quick) it shows all green.
 
But when i checkdisk it it shows many red's (http://www.lemonamiga.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_sad.gif)
 
Is there any way or software quicker than this? Format and check if the disk has bad sectors?
 
Thanks

Title: Re: Best Format Tool?
Post by: pVC on April 03, 2018, 06:20:01 PM

There must be some dedicated software for it too, but I've just used DOpus' format for last two decades. It has a verify option which verifies while formatting and seems to work well. Can't remember if it was already in DOpus4, but at least DOpus 5.x has it.

Title: Re: Best Format Tool?
Post by: oguzog on April 03, 2018, 06:22:42 PM

Quote from: pVC;838207

There must be some dedicated software for it too, but I've just used DOpus' format for last two decades. It has a verify option which verifies while formatting and seems to work well. Can't remember if it was already in DOpus4, but at least DOpus 5.x has it.

Will definitely check it out. Thanks.

Title: Re: Best Format Tool?
Post by: zipper on April 03, 2018, 06:27:18 PM

I did use DCopy3 - it was at least fast, faster than system format. http://aminet.net/disk/misc/DCopy31.lha

Title: Re: Best Format Tool?
Post by: oguzog on April 03, 2018, 07:21:58 PM

Quote from: zipper;838209

I did use DCopy3 - it was at least fast, faster than system format. http://aminet.net/disk/misc/DCopy31.lha

Can't download it.

It says "forbidden"

Title: Re: Best Format Tool?
Post by: oguzog on April 03, 2018, 07:29:27 PM

Quote from: oguzog;838211

Can't download it.

It says "forbidden"

Works now.