Is it possible it's an 8 sector disk before dos 2.25?
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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf_at_siconic.com>
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Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 12:25 PM
Subject: Problems reading older disk on newer drive
>
> I think we've discussed this before. Sorry if we're re-treading old
> ground.
>
> I'm trying to read a disk an old double-density PC formatted disk on a
> high-density drive. I can read the directory and certain small files just
> fine, but any files that are larger than a few sectors (or perhaps that
> span a track) return "Sector Not Found" errors. What is the deal with
> that?
>
> This is under DOS 6.22. Is there a way to get DOS to recognize that this
> is a double-density disk and to perform whatever internal magic is
> necessary to read the disk properly? Or is this an issue of hardware?
>
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