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

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From: Luke Tupper
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 00:00

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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???

Luke

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From: tupps@labyrinth.net.au (Luke Tupper)
Subject: Re: Why are more Floppy disks failing these days???
Date: 1998/05/16
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