X-copy tng ?

[amigadave]

Hi all im using X-Copy TNG on my amiga 1200 and i have a lot of disks that need repaired and was wanting to know if you guys (and gals) could tell me which program to use i have these programs installed from the x-copy disk.

X- it
XCopyPro
Cyclone1201
DiskCopier
XLent Pro
Xpress
QED
XLent

Any one know what i need to do i only have DF0: if that is of any help.

TIA Ray

I suggest you first clean your floppy drive carefully and as thoroughly as you can.  Get a floppy disk cleaning disk and solution and run it several times, get some compressed air to blow out the floppy drive, or search on Aminet for directions on how to clean and adjust Amiga floppy drives.  There might even be a floppy drive adjusting software program, IIRC.  I have found that a lot of my original floppy disks that show read errors on one floppy drive are perfectly readable on another floppy drive.

Then, if all else fails, try to use Disksalv, or other disk recovery programs to salvage as much data from your floppy disks as possible, but they are only able to fully recover and reproduce 100% of a floppy disk rarely (at least from my own experience).  Trying to duplicate a damaged floppy disk is a tough job, but most of the time I have been able to get a different floppy drive to read floppy disks that have read errors on one of my other floppy drives after using a drive cleaning disk.

[amigadave]

@carvedeye,

Before you trash too many floppy disks, I suggest that you buy or borrow a known good external floppy drive to test your disks on.  If you are finding a lot of your floppy disks have read errors, it might just be that your floppy drive, DF0: is marginal and needs replacing.

Replacing the CIA chips is also not a bad idea.

[amigadave]

I have tested the floppys on 2 disk drives and still get the same error? so could it be that my CIA chip(s) are faulty?

Was this after using Disksalv on those floppy disks?

As others may have mentioned, some versions of Disksalv have been known to trash disks, instead of repairing them as advertised.

[amigadave]

I have had the problem before tried different hard drives done fresh installs of workbench but the problem is still there I've also notice my mouse is playing up aswell as my gamepads so I'm thinking that my CIA chips could be the fault

Can't guarantee that it will fix your problem, but replacing the CIA chips is a simple procedure, if you have access to the replacement chips.  I have only had to do it once, when I lost the proper function of my mouse long ago on an A2000.  I don't really remember what caused it to go bad, or how I traced the problem to the CIA chip, but replacing it fixed the problem I was having, so I quickly forgot about it.  IIRC, I only had to replace one of my CIA chips and I don't remember how I knew which one to replace.