First post, by Nemo1985
Hello, I had a couple of floppy that died with this error all of the sudden.
One moment before they were working (and perfect no damaged sector or anything else) and then they stopped.
I did 2 things that may have cause problem to them:
1) I put them under my cellphon
2) I used them on a unstable system, socket 7 system with p233 mmx oc to 262 which also corrupted all the data on my hard drive.
I found a common way to recover them is to use imagedisk 1.18, despite my tryings they still gave me the same error as soon I tried to format them.
Then I tried with a neodymium magnets (took them from non working hard drives) and then one came back to life, while the other is still giving the same error.
I vaguely read that neodymium magnets are the last resort to bring them to a new life, but how should I precisely use it?
Thanks for any suggestion.