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- From: douglas@cs.scarolina.edu (G. David Douglas Jr.)
- Subject: Re: Diskette read errors and data loss.
- Message-ID: <douglas.728193313@willow.cs.scarolina.edu>
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 03:55:13 GMT
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- Have you tried "VERIFY ON" at the command prompt before doing
- any copying/writing to diskette? From what I've seen, doing
- backups to floppy-disk of files on my hard disk, write errors
- (thus read errors after that) WILL eventually happen, and are more
- likely to happen when writing to high-density diskettes.
-
- Or try something like
-
- COPY /V FILENAME.EXT A:\
-
- where the A: drive contains the diskette you're writing to.
-
-
- Just my thoughts on the situation ... no implication regarding
- how well you're versed in MS-DOS.
-
- P.S. Using VERIFY ON or the /V option DOES cause diskette writes
- to be slower -- but, at least in my case, I've never had
- any problems reading backup files using this method.
-
-
- David Douglas
- douglas@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu
-
-