On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > 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).
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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