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Re: Bad sectors on Floppy Disks
« on: January 31, 2011, 02:49:10 AM »
I'm not sure I'd use those floppies...

Maybe if they format fine on the first try....but if it takes a lot of effort / special software then it's probably a sign not just of data fade, but that the actual magnetic media is physically failing (i.e. oxide is flaking off the disks).  Not good for reliable data storage or the heads of your floppy drive.

By now a lot of the adhesives that were used to keep the magnetic particles on the plastic disk substrate are beyond their expiry date.
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