Suggestions for checking integrity of entire floppy disk?

[orb85750]

Utilities that will scan the full floppy disk?  Will copy-protected software show disk errors even if the disks are actually fine?

[bloodline]

What? an ENTIRE floppy disk... that could take... minutes...

hehe, sorry... checkout xCopyIII

[Tension]

diskdoctor lol.

(Seriously, dont use diskdoctor)

[Karlos]

Man, there's a tool I've not seen in a long time. Thankfully. I think that thing caused more problems than it ever fixed!

[orb85750]

diskdoctor lol.

(Seriously, dont use diskdoctor)

I remember diskdoctor for the C64.  I didn't even know it was available for Amiga.

[Karlos]

I remember diskdoctor for the C64.  I didn't even know it was available for Amiga.

I think it meant "doctor" as in the verb. Certainly it made a right hash of the one or two floppies I tried it on

[yorgle]

I think it meant "doctor" as in the verb. Certainly it made a right hash of the one or two floppies I tried it on

hahahahahaha!  I never thought of it as verb!

seemed to me like 50% of the time, DiskDoctor did nothing
25% of the time it would mangle your disk even more
5% It'd rename it "Lazarus", and you'd be able to get a couple files off.

maybe.

[actung_bab]

oh your tauting me arent you...
no seriously use disc salv 2 of the aminet exellent program oh how did it again someone dave hayie belive something to do with amiga ;-(
http://aminet.net/disk/salv

and this link for yourself
http://www.motogp.com/en/photos/paddock+girls#Paddock-Girls-at-the-Gran-Premio-de-la-comunitat-Valenciana-517202

oh dont touch the disk doctor nasty
l repaired well l salavaged 2 wb 3.0 floppy disks used disc salv 2 and then recopyed the files to new floppys and  pesto
installed the wb 3 nice...

[orb85750]

OK, but to ask again, will a scan of a working copy-protected commercial disk show errors?

[Tension]

OK, but to ask again, will a scan of a working copy-protected commercial disk show errors?

No.  The whole disk will look like gibberish to the program.

EDIT:  or the disk may look like it's full of errors even though its fine.  I think most custom disks bypassed the trackdisk.device

or something like that...

[motrucker]

Disk Salv V4 is great. BUT, I don't know about using it on copy protected disks since some of the protection schemes were rather basic errors (and some not so basic)

Try making a copy of the protected disk, and run Disk Salv 4 on the copy would be my suggestion...

[Piru]

OK, but to ask again, will a scan of a working copy-protected commercial disk show errors?

It can. However the first track must be valid or else the disk wouldn't be bootable. Assuming a custom trackloader is used the rest of the disk can be in whatever format the HW can read (the limitations are only set by the MFM coding)