how do you recover from a bad floppy disk?

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From: Murray Karstadt
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1989 20:14

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At one time or another most of us will get the feared: "This disk is unreadable
Do you want to initialize it?"
The answer is of course to have a good backup and not worry about message. But
what are your favorite tricks if you not have a good backup. I usually end up
ejecting the disk and reinserting it. If that fails  I try the disk with a 
different drive. If this does not work I'll rebuild the desktop
(Option + Command key) Lastly I'll try Disk First Aid, but none of the above 
seems to work out that well.

thanks for any info
murray

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Subject: how do you recover from a bad floppy disk?
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