Re: Best way to make backups of 3.5" disks - copy prog?

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

You don't run across defective disk drives very often, they're pretty sturdy
devices. If the copies won't boot later I'd tend to think either the HD disks
didn't hold the magnetic pattern or another possibility is while you were
copying disks the heads became dirty enough to have difficulty reading some
disks. In any case if you don't already have one, a head cleaning disk is
pretty well esestial.


Blake Patterson wrote:

>         Good advice...  The other night, when I made something like 25 copies
> of old GS disks onto new HD disks, the copies booted fine.  This
> morning--36 hours later or so, I went thru and booted 5 of the new
> copies.  ALL of them were corrupt--somewhere in the boot, they died.  Amazing.
>
>         Anyway--I've got 100 Imation DS/DD disks on the way in the mail.  I am
> assuming that your below prediction (of HD disk failure) and not a
> problem with my drive, is the culprit.
>
> bp