Author Topic: bad floppy disks (Read 1338 times)

mikefr24 · « **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.

motrucker · « **Reply #1 on:** November 28, 2009, 01:24:21 AM »

There used to be a program that would do this (map out bad sectors, and format the rest) but I cannot remember the name. Maybe someone here has a better memory...

motrucker · « **Reply #2 on:** November 28, 2009, 01:30:12 AM »

A quick search of aminet, comes up with BFormat4.lha that looks like it fills the bill nicely.

mikefr24 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 28, 2009, 01:40:24 AM »

Thanks. I'll give that program a try.

mikefr24 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 28, 2009, 01:56:32 AM »

Awesome! This program works perfectly. Exactly what I needed.

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