User Experience with Flobo Floppy Bad Sector Repair ?

[kenitholson]

Am interested in any user experience with the Flobo Floppy Bad Sector
Repair App. http://www.floborecoverysoft.com/ Did a check and the most
recent posting was more of a discussion of the person that posted it
instead of the + or - of the app.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt....f6de85f142185?q=flobo&rnum=2#7c4f6de85f142185

The description of it seems to good to be true "This is a Free Floppy
disk repair tool. The program eliminates bad sectors of Floppy disk
surface. It does not hide bad sectors in the file system, as Scandisk
like utilities,it really restores them. Most damaged disk have
incorrectly magnetized disk surface. There are also bad sectors that
cannot be recovered because the magnetic surface is scratched. This
utility prove the reliability of Flobo HDD Bad Sector Repair." but
until someone posts actual results ????

Hopefully a few have already done some testing.

Thanks

Ken

 

[thoss]

Am interested in any user experience with the Flobo Floppy Bad Sector
Repair App. http://www.floborecoverysoft.com/ Did a check and the most
recent posting was more of a discussion of the person that posted it
instead of the + or - of the app.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.freeware/browse_thread/thread/b05f61de9
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380826/7c4f6de85f142185?q=flobo&rnum=2#7c4f6de85f142185

The description of it seems to good to be true "This is a Free Floppy
disk repair tool.

Be aware that it does what it says on the can: it repairs disks, not
data. It wipes all data on the disk.

 

[kenitholson]

Thoss

Be aware that it does what it says on the can: it repairs disks, not
data. It wipes all data on the disk.

That is not a problem. have noticed that Floppies tend to get more
errors as age so geneerally try to rotate them.

Ken

 

[Mike S.]

Am interested in any user experience with the Flobo Floppy Bad Sector
Repair App. http://www.floborecoverysoft.com/ Did a check and the most
recent posting was more of a discussion of the person that posted it
instead of the + or - of the app.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt....f6de85f142185?q=flobo&rnum=2#7c4f6de85f142185

The description of it seems to good to be true "This is a Free Floppy
disk repair tool. The program eliminates bad sectors of Floppy disk
surface. It does not hide bad sectors in the file system, as Scandisk
like utilities,it really restores them. Most damaged disk have
incorrectly magnetized disk surface. There are also bad sectors that
cannot be recovered because the magnetic surface is scratched. This
utility prove the reliability of Flobo HDD Bad Sector Repair." but
until someone posts actual results ????

Hopefully a few have already done some testing.

All it seems to do is to simulate an FM erase of the disc, and you must
then do a reformat. If there are truly physical defects in the magnetic
layer which, in my experience, are the true reason for bad sectors on most
(poorly manufactured) floppies in recent years, it accomplishes nothing
except waste your time. I tried "eliminating" the bad sectors on such a
floppy, and upon reformatting they still were there. Big surprise.


..

 

[kenitholson]

Mike S,

All it seems to do is to simulate an FM erase of the disc, and you must
then do a reformat. If there are truly physical defects in the magnetic
layer which, in my experience, are the true reason for bad sectors on most
(poorly manufactured) floppies in recent years, it accomplishes nothing
except waste your time. I tried "eliminating" the bad sectors on such a
floppy, and upon reformatting they still were there. Big surprise.

Thanks for the info.

Ken