Screeching 5 1/4 FDD

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_look.ca>
Date: Thu Oct 5 13:10:13 2000

 I have a hard to replace dsdd floppy disk that produced a
screeching noise while attempting to read it on a win98 box under
Dos using a Dos program. I quickly removed it and tried to read it
on another Dos box also with a HDFDD. No screech but only the
directory was readable, not the contents. I checked the original
FDD again using a scrap dsdd floppy and had no trouble with it.
 Anyone have any thoughts as to what would have caused this ?
And whether the disk is salvageable ? I'm reluctant to run the disk
again on any box till I explore the options, lest I damage it further.
 It was an old DRI PC-install master disk for GEM.

ciao larry

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