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markus sinalco
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Registered: Sep 2005
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Checking old Disks
I've got a problem with some old Disks to check them physically.
Disk Checker works fine, but most still don't work. Is there any
other prog or solution around besides "verify format" to have
some more working disks again ..? /THX |
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Trazan
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 620 |
For discs, I did pick up lots and lots of old 5.25" on Ebays around the globe, most ppl used to sell off 100-1000 discs very cheap with all kinds of old PC files. Format and reuse! |
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markus sinalco
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Registered: Sep 2005
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Jep, but attention, some disks I bought were that dirty i even could'nt see(!) I had to clean my drive 'isoprophyly' afterwards. Some work fine, BASF mostly (?!) .. And some (really about nearly half I bought) did that strange 'nonamenoises' shh shhh shhhh.. - you know. I'm wondering, it was Sony Disks, Verbatim and even Nashuasha . Is it the plastic casing, damaged by too much heat ? Too much varying humidity ? Or was it just the kids who played too much with the 'wrapped with transparent foil paper boxes' ? ;) Who knows ?.. |
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chancer
Registered: Apr 2003
Posts: 346 |
u might find some of the disks are HD disks also.. and not DD etc. 1541's HATE them, a friend sold me a load years ago the b*****
as for disks, i have a 1541 / 1541-2 / 1570.. the best drive out of all 3 is the 1570, it reads pretty much everything, even if the other drives say they are errored.
I've used alchol on the drives to clean the heads as I've had them since 1990 I guess. although one is still playing up, i'm not sure exactly of the problem.
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markus sinalco
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Registered: Sep 2005
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Jep, HD Disks are very 'loud'.I can hear every of them in any drive(okay, 91,1314%;)That's what I forgot to say, beware of HD Disks aswell ! Some who aren't
labeled you can sometimes identify on a lack of (v.bad english) ring in the middle.Yeah, 1570, I don't have one. So it is dangerous to clean drive heads with alcohol
(not spiritus!)?? Sometimes the old 1541 get out of line if you run them too long bcoz of the power supply, maybe the iron is melting. I had just too many errors on disks
that's why I was asking. When I was working on "frog" after some save/delete the Verbatim disk was nearly dead. And I have 3 Floppys.. Like in Altered State 50%;/) OKay, that last question was about the noises old disks do.. And maybe I give the answer myself, it's the sleeve, becoz of too much heat or production failure(?)..I'm not even clear about the error check, on the Amiga it is lets say halfway sure ..
anyway, letz close this one, someone should release a yearly CSDB msx/and-or/gfx collection, there are so many rels that get fairly lost.. just an idea .. |
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