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[arachne] Re: FreeDos diskette

From: "Bastiaan Edelman" <bastiaan.pa3ffz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:08:40 WET

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On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:54:07 +1030, Greg Mayman wrote:

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> On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:07:36 WET, Bastiaan Edelman wrote:

>> Invalid Opcode at: 9FC0 9FC0 0246 7E83 etc, etc.

>> Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure
>> Abort, Ignore, Retry, Fail

>> Curious I inserted the diskette in two other computers, laptops:
>> Compaq Pentium I and Toshiba T2000... same bad results.

> It sounds like some areas of your floppy disk have gone bad. This
> happens in time even with the best of disks.

That was a suggestion I did think of... so I went back to the original
.zip file, unpacked it and made a new diskette: same bad results :-( 

But you are right on the following...

> Some ways to avoid it are:

> 1. Always use an unconditional reformat on a disk that you are
> going to use for important stuff, just before you load the data
> onto it.

> 2. Always make a backup copy. If the stuff is _really_ important,
> make two. And keep them in a cool place -- heat can cause the
> data on a floppy to "fade" faster.

> 3. Refresh the disk occasionally by saving the contents to your
> hard disk, reformatting the disk and rewriting it. DiskCopyFast
> can do all this in one step for you.

>> Did anyone of you encounter this problem and is there a solution?

> Sometimes doing a surface scan with scandisk can remove any bits
> of debris that have attached themselves to the disk.

> But if those parts of the disk have really died, there probably
> is no way of reclaiming it, short of reformatting it and
> reloading the data. But if you don't have a copy of the files,
> that's going to difficult.

> Greg

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