Diagnostic Testing for floppy drive

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Frank Bohan

There has been another thread recently about diagnostic programs for hard
drives. Does anyone know of a program which will test a floppy drive for
faults, and hopefully correct them?

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Frank said:
There has been another thread recently about diagnostic programs
for hard drives. Does anyone know of a program which will test a
floppy drive for faults, and hopefully correct them?
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Main problem is head misalignment. And that's no problem as long as you don't read disks from another drive or try to read ones written on yours on another drive.

Fixing them isn't worthwhile considering their cost. One more expendible item...

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jmatt said:
This may help .

SCRUB A diskette drive cleaning utility
http://esca.atomki.hu/paradise/simtel/msdos/bootutil.html
http://ftp.man.poznan.pl/pub/simtelnet/msdos/bootutil/
http://www.ping.de/sites/systemcoder/mixedstu.htm
Program to clean floppy diskette drive heads. Used in conjunction
with any liquid floppy cleaning kit.
Waves the disk heads over the entire diskette cleaning surface for 40
seconds.

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Thanks for replies. Problem is not major - just some erratic behaviour of
the drive light, but otherwise the drive works ok. I think I'll leave it for
now and think about replacing the drive.

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[QUOTE="dadiOH said:
There has been another thread recently about diagnostic programs
for hard drives. Does anyone know of a program which will test a
floppy drive for faults, and hopefully correct them?
Click to expand...

Main problem is head misalignment. And that's no problem as long as you don't
read disks from another drive or try to read ones written on yours on another
drive.
[/QUOTE]
I have heard somewhere about a Winderz Registry entry that can help here
- do you know anything more?
Fixing them isn't worthwhile considering their cost. One more expendible
item...
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Indeed.
 
Roger said:
I have heard somewhere about a Winderz Registry entry that can help
here - do you know anything more?
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Nope.

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LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
I do have some older dos programs that actually check for head skew and
alignment and claim to realign heads in software. Is this possible?

I also want to mention a older, lifesaver, floppy disk diagnostic and
repair program: It is called revive.exe written in 1989 by Emil
LAURENTIU. The thing checks a floppy disk, sector by sector (not by
clusters). It has several methods of moving data to good sectors and/or
rewriting a faulty boot sector -- thus saving data from an otherwise
unreadable floppy. Some of these bad sectors may be because the head can
not read the sector.

It can also save an reformat an otherwise bad floppy much better than
the standard, format a:.
 
I also want to mention a older, lifesaver, floppy disk diagnostic and
repair program: It is called revive.exe written in 1989 by Emil
LAURENTIU.
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If anyone wants it ;

http://short.stop.home.att.net/freesoft/z_2nd.htm

Regards, John.

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I do have some older dos programs that actually check for
head skew and alignment and claim to realign heads in
software. Is this possible?
I also want to mention a older, lifesaver, floppy disk
diagnostic and repair program: It is called revive.exe
written in 1989 by Emil LAURENTIU. The thing checks a
floppy disk, sector by sector (not by clusters). It has
several methods of moving data to good sectors and/or
rewriting a faulty boot sector -- thus saving data from an
otherwise unreadable floppy. Some of these bad sectors may
be because the head can not read the sector.

It can also save an reformat an otherwise bad floppy much
better than the standard, format a:.
Click to expand...

Mucho thanks for the revive recommendation. I just found out
another
use for it. I use HD-COPY to format floppies to 1.68 MB and
it has worked
excellent for over 3 years. I had two floppies that it
showed had a few
bad sectors after they had been formatted to 1.68 MB. After
running revive, I was able to format them again but this
time it was
a flawless format.
 
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