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Re: floppy disk bad sectors

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From: Don Locke
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:20
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It works by stepping through the floppy.  But how does CHKDSK A: work? 
It doesn't appear to step through the floppy & is very fast.  It appears 
to me that it is reading some structure to get the information.  Maybe 
the FAT?
Don
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