Re: Fixing a disk

["Otter" <otter@oz.SpammersWillBeKilled&Eaten.net>]

On 10 Dec 1997 21:41:41 GMT, 
LJSILICON  <ljsilicon@aol.com > wrote:

>> Usually, not at all. If this is a 3.5" disk, you should copy off
>>what you can, and toss it out.
>
>Wrongo Buckeroo... Try Vitesse's Deliverance. It will do the job blocking off
>the bad sectors on a 3.5" disk. It is good advise to copy off the working files
>and scrapping the disk once that's done. They make nice coasters; especially if
>you put a label on the disk saying "IMPORTANT DATA".
>

A couple other solutions...

A:  Give it to another system that may be able to format it and block 
of the bad sectors.

B:  Format it as 400K  (single sided).  1/2 a disk is better than no 
disk.

I try to get as much life out of my old disks as possible, considering 
800K 3.5" disks are getting harder and harder to find.  Remember when 
a box of 10 disks was $40?  :3

--Otter