The weather might help, as well as the phase of the moon. But you could be a little more scientific and try different parameters once you went back to disk 1.

The weather might help, as well as the phase of the moon. But you could be a little more scientific and try different parameters once you went back to disk 1. Maybe also remove some of the more questionable drivers or memory-saving tweaks from your DOS configuration while you were at it. Or perhaps it was just a flaky floppy drive that randomly flipped a bit somewhere.