Faulty Disk Drive? [PLEASE NO!!]

[EnyGmaTiK]

In Workbench i can't copy anything, since an 880 error always pop's up... But i can use X-Copy without a problem, without any error whatsoever...

Help?  :-?

[Noster]

Hi

That has been long, long ago...:-)

Do you work with a Workbench disk, not with a harddisk ?
In this case this indicates that your copy of the Workbench disk is corrupt (the part of the disk, where the DiskCopy command is stored).
You should make a new copy of your original Workbench disk or try to repair the current one using a tool like DiskSalv and make a copy of the repaired disk.

Noster

[Piru]

In Workbench i can't copy anything, since an 880 error always pop's up... But i can use X-Copy without a problem, without any error whatsoever...

The filesystem is corrupt, not the disk medium itself. That is the error is logical one, not physical. You can XCopy the disk ad-infinitum and the logical error gets copied to every copy.

DiskSalv, ABTools or similar repair tool might be able to restore some or all the files.

[Morley]

Piru wrote:

In Workbench i can't copy anything, since an 880 error always pop's up... But i can use X-Copy without a problem, without any error whatsoever...

The filesystem is corrupt, not the disk medium itself. That is the error is logical one, not physical. You can XCopy the disk ad-infinitum and the logical error gets copied to every copy.

DiskSalv, ABTools or similar repair tool might be able to restore some or all the files.

Or he is trying to copy some old non-dos disks that came upwith bad sectors all the time :-)  I remember those, they were tricky to pirate :lol:

[Piru]

@Morley

Ah true, didn't think of that.

For such games, you just need to use a copy program that Inhibit DFx: before inserting the disk, or use copy program that shuts down the system (like XCopy).

[Noster]

Hi

You may be right, now I could remember a few games that were hard to be copied even using X-Copy...needed to be copied in "Nibblemode" and sometimes a changed index signal.

Noster

[EnyGmaTiK]

Actually no. I was copying Aexplorer to floopy to use with Amiga Explorer