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

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

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?
>