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Back in the dual floppy drive days, I vividly remember getting the diskcopy a: b: right but accidentally placed the blank in a:. I vividly remember doing it a
by ballenf 9y ago
Back in the dual floppy drive days, I vividly remember getting the diskcopy a: b: right but accidentally placed the blank in a:.
I vividly remember doing it a second time some months later. But never again.
In my defense I was an idiot and was 8 or 9 years old, so fortunately it was just some shareware game disk that I was trying to copy for a friend only to lose my only copy.
The error made here is in an enormously more complex domain, but kind feels like they just accidentally low-level formatted an important diskette.
- Drdrdrq 9y agoYeah, I guess we all learned to write-protect the floppies the hard way... When you lose data you become a bit more paranoid about making mistakes. Fortunatelly floppies could be protected with a bit of tape.
- thefalcon 9y agoI never understood why you would ever write-protect a floppy. Then again, I had a Mac 512k with a single floppy drive. (Insert Disk A; CRANK WHIRR GRIND SPIT; Insert Disk B; WHIRR WHIRR CRANK GRIND SPIT; Insert Disk A...)
- StavrosK 9y agoOr rather, without a bit of tape. Tape was for writing, that's why many commercial disks shipped with the window permanently open.