Error Reading From Drive A Dos Area Sector Not Found
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The PC Guide Tip Jar. Visa/MC/Paypal accepted. View over 750 of my fine art photos any time for free at DesktopScenes.com! [ The PC Guide | Troubleshooting and Repair Guide | The Troubleshooting Expert | Troubleshooting Specific Components | Troubleshooting Floppy Disk Drives | Errors ] I am getting a "Data error reading drive A:/B:" or "Sector not found" while trying to read a floppy disk
Explanation: You are receiving errors trying to read the contents of a floppy disk. The contents of one of the sectors on the disk cannot be read. Diagnosis: Unfortunately, the most common cause of data error or sector not found messages is media failure; floppy disk media is just not that reliable and https://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20090119165916AACe12v will eventually fail if used frequently. There are many different factors that can contribute to the failure of floppy disks, and with proper care, they can be made to last a reasonable amount of time, but they all fail if used any significant amount. Warning: Do not store original work on floppy disks, or use them as a primary storage area for your active files. The chances of failure are too great, and their performance is very low. Use http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/fdd/errorsData-c.html the hard disk instead, and use floppies only for file transfer and backup (if you don't have better options). Recommendation: Make sure you use high-quality media of the right type for your floppy disk drive. Using poor quality media can lead to problems. Try ejecting and then reinserting the disk. You'd be surprised how often this fixes the problem. There may be dirt or dust on the surface of the disk. Sometimes tapping the edge of the disk on a hard surface a few times will loosen whatever is causing the problem and let you read the disk. I would recommend emptying its contents to a hard disk subdirectory and then discarding the floppy in favor of a new one. Clean the floppy drive read heads. Dirty heads can cause read errors, especially if this is occurring with more than one disk. Make sure the floppy drive types are properly set up in the system BIOS. Try the problem disk in a different PC, if available. Try other disks in this drive. Sometimes a disk will work fine in one floppy but not in another. If you find that one particular drive always has problems reading disks then continue here. Try using a different brand of media. Some drives don't seem to like some brands of disks but work better with other ones. You can "repair" a damaged disk by using a disk utility such ainstructions: Windows Mac Red Hat Linux Ubuntu Click URL instructions: Right-click on ad, choose "Copy Link", then paste here → (This https://sourceforge.net/p/dosemu/mailman/message/4744792/ may not be possible with some types of ads) More information about our ad policies X You seem to have CSS turned off. Please don't fill out this field. You seem to have CSS turned off. Please don't fill out this field. Briefly describe the problem (required): Upload screenshot of ad (required): Select a error reading file, or drag & drop file here. ✔ ✘ Please provide the ad click URL, if possible: Home Browse DOSEMU for Linux Mailing Lists DOSEMU for Linux Brought to you by: bartoldeman Summary Files Reviews Support Wiki Git ▾ Code History Tickets ▾ Bugs Support Requests Patches Feature Requests Donate Mailing Lists dosemu-cvs dosemu-devel error reading from dosemu-notify [Dosemu-notify] [ dosemu-Bugs-918802 ] floppy access error [Dosemu-notify] [ dosemu-Bugs-918802 ] floppy access error From: SourceForge.net