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Subject: Re: bads sectors on a floppy disc
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On Tue, 13 May 2003 07:36, xxavi wrote:
> Hi, I have many floppies discs with bads sectors, there's any form for
> repair the bads sectors?
>

If you have many you should get rid of the hardware or software at fault.

You value your time very cheaply if you want to recover disks with bad se=
ctors
particularly as the chances are that they'll fail again while carrying=20
important data. The rubbish bin is the best fix!

(I've actually fallen into this trap myself on occassions -- when I stand=
 back=20
and consider what I've done I become very annoyed)

Malcolm Kay