19 Aug
2007
19 Aug
'07
10:46 a.m.
Subject: Re: Broken floppy disks
From: "e.stiebler" <emu at e-bbes.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:50:57 -0600
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Ade Vickers wrote:
Sounds like the drive is dead not media. Hwoever I've had media that
needed bulk erase before format. One check is that if the drive was dirty
(heads fouled) it will scratch good media and make it permanently bad media.
In every case like that slide the whutter open and check the media before
and after, scratches show!
Allison
Hi guys...
I have a truly huge number of old 3.5" HD floppy disks which no longer work.
Attempting to format them in DOS returns the largely unhelpful "Invalid
media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable" error message.
Same here. Pretty much
all of the 3.5" don't work reliably anymore.
But 9-tracks from the 70's are fine, 8" and 5.25" floppies are fine.
Just plain weird.