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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> What fdimage has done, it should be able to undo.  Just
> get a floppy image file (eg. from the rootdsks directory
> of a Slackware CDrom) and write it to the unusable floppy 
> using fdimage.  Make sure you get an image that fills the
> entire floppy (1474560).

This was to fix the floppy disks that developed bad sectors after running 
fdimage with a small image file.  My partner Jim insisted vehemently that 
it would not possibly work.  I insisted that we try it.  It worked.  He 
says he never would have believed it.  I have repaired two disks.  He 
ripped the metal pieces off the others already.  

The images in rootdsk ended in .dsk.  We used pcimia.dsk.

Do we need to reformat after this?