help! how to recover water logged floppies?

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sun Apr 20 16:12:00 2003

On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Jeffrey S. Worley wrote:

> I've also used this method to produce 'bad' sectors to duplicate simple
> copy protection schemes. Write a program that repeatedly writes and
> reads the sector in question. When the just-written sector is not
> readable without tugging on the disk again, you are in business for a
> bad sector. It really works.

It's generally easier to just find and remove the copy protection ;)

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