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[The Fifth Horseman]

Norton Disk Tool for DOS can repair some damaged floppy disks. I think it is a program included with Norton Utilities for DOS.

Do not mistake data recovery for repair. NDT might block access to the damaged clusters, even recover _some_ of the data held in them, but it can't and won't repair physical damage of the disk surface.

In fact, floppies just degrade after a couple years - lost my Lords of the Realm (and original I bought a while back) that way, same goes for Battle Isle 1 and Scout Quartermaster. The floppies were used maybe twice, and then were kept safely in their respective boxes for around 6 years. Badsectors -> damaged floppies -> lost games.