First post, by Jed118
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Hello and help! (Also Merry Christmas)
Has anyone encountered such aggressive reading of the floppy disktette when running scandisk?
This happens on two of my MS-DOS 6.22 machines. Format doesn't matter, as I stuck in a 5.25 in the machine and it did the exact same thing. 30+ diskettes were used (I was scanning them, preparing for USB archiving) and they all do the same thing EXCEPT when the write protect tab is disabled.
I've used DOS since I was 12, and I do NOT recall this kind of disk access issue. I'm thinking it's a virus, but I've done an FPROT recently (as well I loaded a diskette into my XP machine with up to date Trend Micro and it found nothing - Unfortunately my control disk with the ANTIEXE virus seems to have suffered a Track 0 failure so I can't even test if Trend Micro will pick up viruses so old)
I'm stumped. What am I actually seeing here?
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