10 Nov
2001
10 Nov
'01
12:29 p.m.
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
I should qualify this by saying that as long as they are DOS 3.3 or ProDOS
formatted disks then you're probably OK. If they were disks that didn't
use DOS to boot then you may have lost those programs.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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I did need to
have a drive aligned once in 1987 or so when for some
reason, both the drive AND the controller card went bad. Not knowing
any better, I tried all my dos3.3 floppies, which hosed the boot
track, rendering them unusable. Never have fixed those disks yet.
probably are still readable too.
As long as only the boot track (presuming track 0) was hosed then your
data is 99.9% likely in tact (unless screwed from some other problem).