HELP! (Damaged data)

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From: Hwang
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 04:43

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I have an atari 1040st. Sometimes when I try to run a program,
the disk drive (built in the st) makes a sick sound (I don't
know how else to describe it..it is not the normal rrrrrrr,
but r..r..r..r), then a banner comes up saying the data on
the disk may be damaged. The program will not run. This happened
with MichTron 220-ST terminal emulator, and with Abacus paintpro.
Fortunately, the 220-ST is not copy protected, so I just made
another copy, but the paintpro is dead. (I haven't bothered to
send in for back up copy, because I don't care for it all that much).

Question: why does this happen? I do not abuse my floppies nor
my computer. I have put 5-1/4 floppies through all kinds of adverse
conditions, and to date I have NEVER had data problems with these
larger floppies. Is there something wrong with my drive? 
I am a little nervous right now because I have a lot of money
invested in music software, all of which are copy protected. 
Has anybody ever experienced similar conditions? HELP!

please send help to address in header. Thanks.

Joe Hwang

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From: jshwang@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Hwang)
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Subject: HELP! (Damaged data)
Keywords: floppy disk, damaged data
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Date: 11 May 89 04:43:33 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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