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Black Beard
Registered: Dec 2008
Posts: 11 |
Disk Transfer Questions
Current Setup Commodore 64 and a PC
Zoomfloppy and CBMXFER
I transferred about 250-300 disks.
I would say about 30-40 of those disks had read errors but continued copying. I tested them and they seem fine, but I did not play completely through. About 4 of them like Ultima3 have read errors and the disk just spins forever so I gave up on those.
Any idea if I would have better luck with Warpcopy and 1541UII? Is it really worth it?
I did find some versions of 6485 that are not online and of cnet as well. Found some games cracked by local groups here in Miami that are also not online. I found an intro loader for a group I was in, The Faction. the collection starts from 85 to about 87. They are mostly from a cousin of mine. I do have about 10 disks of my own from 88-89.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Black Beard |
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SIDWAVE
Account closed
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
if your disks are broken, warpcopy wont help.
maybe a hardware nibbler will though. |
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Acidchild
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 464 |
try to get your hands on warpcopy beta 2 (ask graham), with it you are able to retransfer 'broken' sectors over and over again. inbetween you should try to clean the disk, cut it off and put it under water, dry the disk and retry the transfer...you can also try to clean the head of the drive, when you open it. |
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cba
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 932 |
Quote: Current Setup Commodore 64 and a PC
Zoomfloppy and CBMXFER
I transferred about 250-300 disks.
I would say about 30-40 of those disks had read errors but continued copying. I tested them and they seem fine, but I did not play completely through. About 4 of them like Ultima3 have read errors and the disk just spins forever so I gave up on those.
Any idea if I would have better luck with Warpcopy and 1541UII? Is it really worth it?
I did find some versions of 6485 that are not online and of cnet as well. Found some games cracked by local groups here in Miami that are also not online. I found an intro loader for a group I was in, The Faction. the collection starts from 85 to about 87. They are mostly from a cousin of mine. I do have about 10 disks of my own from 88-89.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Black Beard
Share your disks when your done, so they the missing stuff can be sorted and added to CSDB. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11108 |
Quote:you can also try to clean the head of the drive, when you open it.
with curlins disks (which were stored in not so great conditions for some years) i had to clean the head after *each* disk, or i would get plenty errors. |
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bugjam
Registered: Apr 2003
Posts: 2476 |
Important: 1541U-2 won't help you with WarpCopy (whichever version), as it is missing the network capability! If you want to use WarpCopy, Individual Computers has the RRnet Mk3 on sale, which works standalone as well (plugs directly into the expansion port, without any module) - you can get it for example here: http://www.vesalia.de/e_rrnetmk3.htm
Otherwise, I can really recommend it - I do all my transfers with WarpCopy. Agree to all what was said before! Save that stuff, please! :-) |
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DemongerX
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Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 137 |
Changing drive heads as well. I've changed out 2 drive heads for a couple of 1571'sw that I us for my main archiving drives. Alot of the disks I've backed up have balked when archiving them orininally, but after changing the drive heads they've worked fine. I've been fortunate that the 2mhz mode has been active for both drives(though 1 does have the parallel mod)
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Exile
Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 54 |
Im transferring oldschool with cleaning the head every few disks, cleaning the disks if needed. Using a screwdriver for alignment. Saved 5000 disksides for now. Not in scenebase yet! |
