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Offline mikefr24Topic starter

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bad floppy disks
« on: November 28, 2009, 01:04:20 AM »
I have a bunch of old Amiga Floppy's that I have been formatting to use as blank disks.  It seems that many of them get the "bad sector" error during format.  Are these disks now unusable or can I still save them?  I remember on my old PC machines that I could always fix a disk by marking the bad sector and the disk capacity would just get smaller but was still usable.
 

Offline mikefr24Topic starter

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Re: bad floppy disks
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2009, 01:40:24 AM »
Thanks.  I'll give that program a try.
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Re: bad floppy disks
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2009, 01:56:32 AM »
Awesome!  This program works perfectly.  Exactly what I needed.