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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.
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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