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Date:      Wed, 14 May 2003 21:58:34 +0930
From:      Malcolm Kay <Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net>
To:        xxavi2@x.org.org, xxavi <xxavi@myrealbox.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bads sectors on a floppy disc
Message-ID:  <200305142158.34566.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030513000629.xxavi@myrealbox.com>
References:  <XFMail.20030513000629.xxavi@myrealbox.com>

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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



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