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In article <Aug.5.16.14.32.1989.8334@galaxy.rutgers.edu> murray@andromeda (Murray Karstadt) writes:
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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

A trick that has worked for me in MOST cases is to heat the disk up a little.
I do this by placing it on my mac (when I owned a Mac+ which got quite hot
on top) or between the Hard Disk and the bottom of the mac (nowadays).  The
disk will usually read after this.  In many cases it remembers that it was
readable and is still so even when it cools down!  I read somwhere long ago
that this works because the diskette drives change their alignment slightly
after some time has passed and they "warm up", a diskette recorded in a
warm drive will not read too well in a cold one, and visa versa.  I don't
recomend using a toaster to heat the dikettes up (never tired it, but somehow
doubt that it will work).
- Yossie

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