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| 3988.1 | | ELWOOD::PETERS | | Fri Aug 03 1990 10:10 | 9 |
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Your EIS consultant has the right idea. The only way to de-format
a disk is to bulk erase it. This is done by passing a magnet over the
media. Here in Tape Eng. we have a number of different brands and they
all seem to work the same.
Steve Peters
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| 3988.2 | format df(-1): | EUCLID::OWEN | I will not instigate revolution | Fri Aug 03 1990 10:10 | 9 |
| A large magnet maybe? Other than that, I'm not so sure you can do it.
Leave the disks on top of your monitor for a week or so, that should do
it...
8^)
Steve
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| 3988.3 | | WJG::GUINEAU | | Fri Aug 03 1990 10:24 | 12 |
| > My EIS consultant recommends putting the disks inside ny loudspeaker
> cabinet, right up close to the bass speaker, and playing an hour
> or so of Motorhead...
That would probably work. Forget playing music, it won't make any difference.
Just shuffle the floppy around the magnet a bit (keep it moving, don't just
stick it on there).
You need to be carefull not to magnitize the metal hub in the center
of the floppy (ie dont let it contact the speaker magnet)
joh
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| 3988.4 | Try a Radio Shack bulk eraser | RGB::ROSE | | Fri Aug 03 1990 11:57 | 7 |
| Normally, bulk erasing is done with an AC electromagnet. Radio
Shack used to have them for under $10. I assume they still do. You
want to move the bulk eraser around the disk for several seconds, then
pull it gradually away from the disk until there is several feet of
separation. Then switch off the bulk eraser. If you switch it off
near the disk, you could get residual DC magnetism depending on the
phase of the line voltage when you switched it off.
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| 3988.5 | Dust Buster might do it | CSC32::A_ANDERSON | DTN 592-4170 NSU/VAX | Fri Aug 03 1990 20:14 | 6 |
| Additional to number .4 keep well away from the rest of your floppies
when you do this. Also a freind of mine got his 5 1/4 inch floppies
erased by accident with a Black and Decker dust buster. His wife
decided to clean up around his computer.
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| 3988.6 | wipedisk | READ::POMEROY | | Mon Aug 06 1990 08:32 | 15 |
| There is a program out there that may be able to do what you need. I
ran into a similar problem when trying to backup a game that was full
of killer disk protections. I used a program that supposedly wipes the
disk clean and the copy worked. I think the program was called diskwipe
or wipedisk or something. It was a long time ago, I can't remember
exactly. Steve do you know what I'm talking about.
Also, I may be way off here, but if it just the residual AmigaDOS
format that screws up the copy, maybe formatting it for the PC or
something may work, or copying a non-AmigaDOS game/program to it so
that it destroys the Ami format. I doubt if this would work, but who
knows.
bob pomeroy
refine::pomeroy
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| 3988.7 | DiskWipe from Marauder | COOKIE::WITHERS | Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison | Tue Aug 14 1990 12:15 | 9 |
| Maruader used to ship with a program called DiskWipe which totally
zotched a disk - quite impressive...when you put a DiskWipe(d) disk in
(say) DF0:, the iconm shows up and underneath, it says "DF0:.
I remember something in the manual about it being PD so maybe someone
ca upload it somewhere.
BobW
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| 3988.8 | Deformatting at last! | FILTON::FENTON_R | Stop Kidding Yourself | Mon Jan 21 1991 06:15 | 10 |
| Well, what do you know - I finally received an upgrade of X-Copy (now
Version 3.1) - this includes a disk deformatter. Just as well - the
other night I spent 5 minutes wiping a loudspeaker magnet all over one
of my disks - apart from magnetising the central hub, it had no effect
at all on the data!
-Rog
PS this version of X-Copy WORKS - in fact it works very well so far...
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