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

[Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>]

	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

Wayne Stewart wrote:
> 
> Some people, myself included, haven't had a problem using HD disks
> formatted DD however I do know of cases where there have been problems.
> The most memorable happened to a friend of mine that had 80% of the HD
> disks formatted DD from a copy session become unreadable within 24 hours.
> However that's an unusally high failure rate.
> 
> If the data is very important I'd hunt up some DD disks. New ones are a bit
> hard to find but still around. Someone mentioned Walmart still has them.
> 
> Blake Patterson wrote:
> 
> >         What is one to do, then??  Buy used DD disks to make "new" copies of
> > older disks so they'll last longer??  I wanted to "refresh" my disks by
> > making copies now in hopes that these will last longer than the old ones
> > will.  The only 3.5" disks I can find are HD disks.  I've been using
> > those tonight and have made something like 40 copies so far-and they
> > seem to be working.  Should I assume they are not going to last??
> >
> >         I would have to imagine that using old, used DD disks is just not the
> > best way to do it.  Are there new DD disks that would work better than
> > HD disks?  Thanks.
> >
> >         Can anyone clarify?
> >

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