Re: Why are more Floppy disks failing these days???

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From: Robert Blackshaw
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 00:00

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tupps@labyrinth.net.au (Luke Tupper) wrote:

>In article <6jicmo$8q2$4@clarknet.clark.net>, blckshaw@clark.net wrote:

>>Poole <nospan@ibm.net> wrote:

>>
>>Hmm? I have encountered this problem and usually correct the problem
>>by formatting the diskette on my MAC. If the MAC says it's bad then I
>>pitch the floppy, but 90% of the time it formats the floppy and then,
>>once it has been blessed by Apple :-), Windoze95 accepts the floppy.
>>
>>Bob

>What is actually happening there is once a mac formats a disk it then
>verifies the disk, rejecting it if the verify fails. So is there a program
>for Win95/NT that will format and verify floppy disks???

Well when I ask Windoze95 to format an already formatted diskette
it comes up with a message "Verifying 1..44 format" so I guess that
it does some form of verification. The MAC's is more obvious as it
is a two step function - format then verify. I have even rescued
diskettes that had the 'bad track 0' message by running a very
strong magnet over them, or a degausser, either one seems to
work.

Bob

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From: blckshaw@clark.net (Robert Blackshaw)
Subject: Re: Why are more Floppy disks failing these days???
Date: 1998/05/16
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