Perhaps it is not the disks, but the drive. Have you tried formatting different disks from a different batch and got the same result? Also, I wonder about the density of the disks. Are they the same? I know that with some compatibility issues with some drives not working with single density, double density and high density. On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:27 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I went to format 5.25 disks from a NOS box still in shrink wrap. There were 11 disks in the box ("pay for 10, get one free"). Every disk resulted in a track error at a different track.
If you can't trust never-opened disks to be good, then how do you acquire disks?
Is there any good software to repair the errors?
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