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Re: Bad sectors on Floppy Disks
« on: January 30, 2011, 08:43:25 PM »
Quarterback Tools could be of help to you if you want to make use of some of your floppy disks with bad sectors :)



If you choose the option to check for bad blocks on both reads and writes of the floppy (as shown above), it will do so and put a file called bad.blocks on the disk. Then when you write your photos, docs or games to the disk, it will avoid using the blocks marked as bad :) However, it will not allow you to safely unpack ADF or DMS file onto a corrupt disk, as that would just overwrite the bad.blocks file.

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