Software to check for errors on floppies?

[Topher]

I've gota buttload of floppies that I need to go through. I just want to be able to pop them into the floppy drive (I gotta find it first, it's around here somewhere 😉 ) and determine if the floppy is good or bad, so I can throw the bad ones out and give the good ones to the wife (she prefers floppies, don't ask, if you're married, you'll understand this is a discussion you'll NEVER win!).

Anyone know of any simple progams that will just determine if a floppy is good or bad? Thanks.

 

[Apathetic]

You could just reformat them all and any that report problems get pitched.

Dave

 

[Topher]

I was hoping to save a lot of time. Reformatting them all isn't exactly a quick process.

 

[Mark R]

The only way to tell if they are good or not is to have your PC try to read and write to every sector of data from the disk.

Format (not quick format), or scandisk (run in thorough mode) are the quickest ways I can think of.

 

[JRez]

create a batch file that runs check disk with the appropriate switches:

chkdsk a: /p

save that line into a file called <whatever you want to call it>.bat

each time you stick in a floppy, run the batch file.

If it reports any bad sectors, toss em. Easy and free 🙂