![]() ![]() Most of my floppy disk experience is in DOS. It's very strange unless I managed to just buy two packages of bad disks in a row and only this one random one in my junk pile works? Also I've tried two different disk drives and the result is the same. instead of XXXXX I see VVVVV (I assume for Verified) and I can boot off the disk and everything. anyway that disk formats without complaint and I can write an image to it without issue. which would make me think maybe the drive is bad BUT then I just had one disk laying around in my piles of old PC junk just says it's a Verbatim on the label. Then when I try to actually write out a disk image as it's writing I hear a nasty buzzing sound and as the progress bar goes by it's all turning to XXXXXX which I assume is bad tracks/sectors/blocks/whatever. so then I format it and if I refresh I'll see the name I gave the disk although sometimes it gives me some error about the drive door being open but whatever it appears to work. ![]() I bootstrap ADTPRO and go to format, I get IO error. I have a box of Sony DSDD disks and another package of no-name disks. ![]() ![]() I'm trying to figure out why I'm having problems too. ![]()
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