Bad Mac disk: what to do?

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From: I Walkenfeld
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 1985 21:26

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What does (can) one do about bad Mac disks?

One particular disk always gets the message "This is not a Macintosh
disk" (not "unreadable"), and when I OK initialization, the Mac does
a litlle something and then spits it out with the message
"Initialization failed." 

Is this a hardware failure, tracking failure, or what?  I'm not hard
up for the disk, but I'd like to salvage it if possible.
(I think I may have tried to initialize it for the first time with a
system that I had been tinkering with - might this have done
something to the disk?)

Thanks for any help (or condolence).

			Irwin Walkenfeld
			AT&T Information Systems
			Holmdel, NJ

			...!hou5a!ihw

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Subject: Bad Mac disk: what to do?
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Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 16:26:32 EST
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