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Re: bad block fix?



Louis Cornelio (lcornel@cello.gina.calstate.edu) wrote:

: Hi. Is there a fix for a bad block in a data disk that renders in 
: unreadable, w/ the msg "not a prodos or dos disk", ?

  That's unlikely to be an actual bad block.. I think you'd get
some other error (like I/O Error).  There was once a program for
DOS 3.3 5.25" disks that would recover a disk with just about
any error.. but that's DOS 3.3 only.

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