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Corrupted Disks???

Authors

John Oliger

Publication

Update Magazine

Pub Details

Update October 1987

Date

October 1987

Pages

26
See all articles from Update October 1987

Occasionally you might come across a disk that has become corrupted in its file storage pointer area (track zero) that will simply refuse to load any file at all. What will usually cause this is a glitch on power up of either the drive or computer, with the disk installed.

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