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Software suggestions for formatting/recovering troublesome floppy disks?

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First post, by appiah4

Posted on 2019-10-07, 20:54

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I have some floppies that I can't seem to format (Sector not found, trouble finding sector 0 etc.) via regular dos FORMAT.COM. Is there anything I can use to force a format on them?

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Reply 1 of 4, by Caluser2000

Posted on 2019-10-07, 21:05

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Throw them out and buy a new set off amazon.

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