Open the notch and check for large errors. Yeah, it will crash a few times during the following process.Ĩ. Do not run anything else on this computer. This image file is sort of broken, and you will not able to boot from it! But that does not matters for now.Ĩ. But this will cough out an image file for you. All Linux tool to handle the old floppy drives are broken since a decade. Well, not really, linux cant properly handle old floppy drives since years. This will create a copy from the contencts of the floppy. Boot to linux, and make a copy from your floppy using the following command: ddrescue /dev/fd0 /whatever -force Boot the linux computer from this floppy to see if it works.ħ. Please note: this method will only cure the 1,44 disks, you must restart and redo the whole process for 720k disks separately!Ħ. Ensure all other disk's write notch is in the writable position.ĥ. Old and crappy floppy drives will not honor this in certain cases aniay, but it adds a bit of extra security.Ĥ. Click the write notch on this floppy, to avoid accidental rewrites. Copy the from the Windows ME install disk to the floppy. The system disk made in Windows XP is actually a ME boot disk. You must find a good floppy in the batch (or have one) which then you can make a system disk from Windows.Ģ. You need the bad floppys you want to fix.ġ. Install this on the Linux computer: apt-get install ddrescueĨ. You need a Windows Millenium install disk.ħ. The Linux computer should preferably have Debian Linux.Ħ. Another computer with any floppy drive with Windows XP (to test the results in real time).ĥ. You will have to install Linux on this.Ĥ. A desktop computer with a normal floppy connector. they maybe know when you insert or remove a floppy).ģ. Panasonic drives maybe work too, but those are maybe a bit smarter (e.g. I made a picture from the drive that can be used. The newer drives are also too smart for this. Some very old pre-386 era drives maybe will not work, as those are TOO smart. A sighly newer floppy drive maybe work as well, but a modern one will probably wont. Older the drive, better the result will be. Use this kind of old, dumb device to do this operation.
This floppy drive does not have a model or part number, its totally noname, and it looks like a 5,25 floppy as its having a large cylinder spinning below the floppy itself. This floppy drive is so dumb, it does not even knows when a floppy is inserted, and tries to boot the nothing for 10 seconds when you try to boot the system. An USB floppy drive, or a floppy drive built into pentium4 class laptops, will not work. (if you are doing 720k floppy's, you will probably need an actual 720k floppy drive, or at least set the floppy type to 720k in bios).Ģ.
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