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I want to know any tricks to repair damaged floppy disks. I have about 10 floppy disks and I had always kept them very carefully but now all have become damaged. I used to run scandisk on them and format them at regular intervals but now they all have become damaged mysteriously. Is this the normal wear & tear of floppy disks or are there any tricks available?
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Normal. I had over 100 of these things several years ago, now the numbers thinned down to about 30 or so - and I don't use some of them cause they caught some nasty sort of virus too.
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21-12-2005, 05:09 PM
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Norton Disk Tool for DOS can repair some damaged floppy disks. I think it is a program included with Norton Utilities for DOS.
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21-12-2005, 07:18 PM
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yeah its really wired i suppose its bet to keep it all on the hard disk
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22-12-2005, 09:27 AM
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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.
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22-12-2005, 10:47 AM
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Yes, it can revive a defective diskette, so you can format it even when before you couldn't.
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If you check the size, you'll find it reduced - NDT has blocked the defective clusters from being written to, that's all.
There is no way it could repair actual physical damage to the disk surface - that just isn't possible.
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22-12-2005, 11:05 AM
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Yes I know.
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And, as a general safety precaution, I advise to dispose of floppies that got even a single badsector - you never know how long till they suffer a total breakdown.
HDD's with badsectors are a little different thing, but I suggest to not put any important files on them - might still be good for setting up an OS, though.
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I have found a tool here:-
I am checking it to see if it works out for me! Flobo Floppy Bad Sector Repair http://www.floborecovery.com/downloads.htm http://www.floborecovery.com/Flobo%20Flopp...pair%20Tool.exe FREEWARE!  k:
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