Restoring old floppies to usable state

From: chris <cb_at_mythtech.net>
Date: Tue Feb 3 14:08:58 2004

Will a magnetic bulk eraser restore a floppy to good status?

I have some floppies that are reporting bad sectors when formatted. I've
tried bulk erasing them, and a format afterwards reports no bad sectors.
Is this actually working, or am I just getting lucky, and those bad
sectors will return shortly.

These are DSDD 3.5's which are getting a little harder to come by. So if
bulk erasing works, then I'll do that and salvage them.

-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Received on Tue Feb 03 2004 - 14:08:58 GMT

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