[torontocbm] Re: Need help unpacking D64 image files back to floppy
- From: "Jim MacKenzie" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:45:49 -0600
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From: "danielkovacs" <danielkovacs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 2:19 PM
Subject: [torontocbm] Need help unpacking D64 image files back to floppy
Does anyone here use that program? Could it be bad floppy
disks? Does anyone think that if I format the disk first
that it would make a difference?
You definitely need to format the disk first. If the disk has an existing
format, the write will work, but if there are some bad sectors on the disk
you'll get errors. This is my guess as to what's happening. A fresh format
will usually cure this, unless the disk is physically damaged.
Brand new, never-before-formatted disks can't be written to directly. They
need to be formatted first, otherwise the first sector that the program
tries to write will result in an error.
Jim
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