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My floppies gone crazy?

Some old floppy disks of mine had bad sectors (before) but after a full format the bad sectors gone! Is this a miracle? lol

Anyone had experienced this before? Just curious...

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    The 16 Gigabyte USBsticks are out, and you are raving about fragile old floppies?

    http://pclinuxos.com/ is a LiveCDrom

    all the bootable CD images on one CD are at http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

    and, at http://livecdlist.com/

  • 1 decade ago

    Do not trust the trusty old floppy..... the problem is they are not at all reliable and as such shows bad sectors even if they dont have one... its just that after a period of time they dont like working... use a cd... if you dont have it on CD download it off the internet... there are lots of sites where you can do this from. Floppy is out CD/DVD is in... so go for it.

  • 1 decade ago

    yes. by lowlevel floppy formating.

    you can format your 720kb floppy and change it to 1.44mb floppy too by insert a hole in lower right of your floppy.

  • 1 decade ago

    sorry can't help ya there. have not seen a floppy drive in over a year

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  • 1 decade ago

    windows hides bad sectors on reformats

  • 1 decade ago

    Isn't that the purpose of full format ?

  • 1 decade ago

    i didn't

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