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Offline Ruud

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Re: Anybody know where I can get a floppy drive aligned?
« on: February 06, 2009, 10:53:02 AM »
How bad does the floppy seem? Does it just give read errors?
This may sound a bit odd but this is something I found that used to work on my A500. I loaded DiskSalv from an external drive put any old disk in DF0: and got DiskSalv to salvage the disk.  I think because DiskSalv directly controls the head (or something, I'm guessing) it moves it to the correct position.  Or something like that, anyway it worked for me on a couple of occasions.  Of course this is completely useless if you haven't got an external drive or the condition of the drive is serious.
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