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**J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]** · November 5th 17, 02:13 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

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Since I later archived all my floppies onto a hard drive, I still have
that old Spin Rite. So, if I boot my Win98 machine to Dos, can I run
that old version of Spin Rite to regenerate some floppies? Will that
work?

I don't think it runs under DOS - I think it's its own OS. So you might
need to put it back onto a floppy to boot it.

Regardless, once you get it running, on hardware that it used to run on,
it should do what it always did: software doesn't decay (assuming the
floppy image file isn't corrupted)! So if regenerating floppies was/is
one of the things it does, then it still will.

I have not used any of that old stuff in years, but I always kept all
software if it was useful.

Also, since I just bought 5 new blank floppies on ebay, should I run it
on them? They are NEW floppies, but probably "new old stock". I had
already planned to re-format them, but maybe I should do more.... I knew
that floppies went bad over time, but I never knew why. Now I do.
Thanks for the info.

I think formatting should work - from what I remember, formatting
floppies didn't do a "quick" format, but did check every sector.

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