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Article #3755Re: Diskette read errors and data loss.
From: G. David Douglas Jr.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:55
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:55
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Have you tried "VERIFY ON" at the command prompt before doing
any copying/writing to diskette? From what I've seen, doing
backups to floppy-disk of files on my hard disk, write errors
(thus read errors after that) WILL eventually happen, and are more
likely to happen when writing to high-density diskettes.
Or try something like
COPY /V FILENAME.EXT A:\
where the A: drive contains the diskette you're writing to.
Just my thoughts on the situation ... no implication regarding
how well you're versed in MS-DOS.
P.S. Using VERIFY ON or the /V option DOES cause diskette writes
to be slower -- but, at least in my case, I've never had
any problems reading backup files using this method.
David Douglas
douglas@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!bogus.sura.net!opusc!usceast!douglas From: douglas@cs.scarolina.edu (G. David Douglas Jr.) Subject: Re: Diskette read errors and data loss. Message-ID: <douglas.728193313@willow.cs.scarolina.edu> Sender: usenet@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (USENET News System) Organization: USC Department of Computer Science References: <27800049@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> Date: 28 Jan 93 03:55:13 GMT Lines: 24