3 Feb
2004
3 Feb
'04
6:08 a.m.
Will a magnetic bulk eraser restore a floppy to good status?
I have some floppies that are reporting bad sectors when formatted. I've
tried bulk erasing them, and a format afterwards reports no bad sectors.
Is this actually working, or am I just getting lucky, and those bad
sectors will return shortly.
These are DSDD 3.5's which are getting a little harder to come by. So if
bulk erasing works, then I'll do that and salvage them.
-chris
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