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Re: Bad sectors on Floppy Disks
« on: January 30, 2011, 05:02:16 PM »
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Hi I recently started transferring adf files to my floppy disks. When I Initialize a floppy disk quite a lot wont and say they have bad sectors. I now have quite a pile of bad sector floppy's. My question is can I use some sort of application to format these and correct the bad sectors or are they for the bin?
 
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You can do a normal format, but their is no way to correct them.
I wouldn't recommend using floppy's with bad sectors either.
 
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Re: Bad sectors on Floppy Disks
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2011, 06:10:04 PM »
It won't work cause most ADF's are 880KB and write the full 79/81 tracks on the disk, one bad sector and you run out of space, unless the ADF is smaller.
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