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Tip: solution for unreadable disks on IIx

2008-06-01 by dvdborn

I have several floppy disks that all give a read error upon inserting them in page 2.

This means that their directory can't be read and subsequently can't be shown on screen.

I thought that these disks were unusable due to their old age.

Until I tried the following: I typed the load command with the file name I wanted and it 
worked.

My Humans1 disk was unreadable in page 2. After inserting the disk and getting the read 
error message I typed: L,A,SARARR.VC and the sample just loaded.

I was able to do this for all the samples on the disk. I then saved them to a new disk and I 
know have a new copy of the Humans1 disk.

Cheers,
David
http://dvdborn.blogspot.com

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