offensive_Jerk
Veteran Member
So I had an issue a while back with my PCJr I got off someone. Was working fine, then certain disks would stop working. Looking at the disk, there would be a ring carved into it. I bought a new drive out of fear it would ruin more disks.
I haven't touched any of those disks since. Recently after getting my AT, I started imaging some more of those early IBM era disks (thanks to mbrutman's excellent program) like the PCJR demo disk, etc. Now after trying to read those, my AT no longer reads disks in the 1.2MB Drive or the 360K drive.
And I determined that the 1.2MB drive is wrecking disks now. I tried formatting a disk a few times, and the ring carved in the disk got bigger and bigger.
Is there something with those disks that is doing this, or how they were stored or something? The AT seemed to read disks pretty decently until this. The 360k drive would be a little sketchy at first.
I ran a cleaner disk in both AT drives and still getting a gouge. I ruined a couple blank 1.2MB disks and a few commercial game disks.
What should I do, rub the disk heads with a qtip and alcohol?
I haven't touched any of those disks since. Recently after getting my AT, I started imaging some more of those early IBM era disks (thanks to mbrutman's excellent program) like the PCJR demo disk, etc. Now after trying to read those, my AT no longer reads disks in the 1.2MB Drive or the 360K drive.
And I determined that the 1.2MB drive is wrecking disks now. I tried formatting a disk a few times, and the ring carved in the disk got bigger and bigger.
Is there something with those disks that is doing this, or how they were stored or something? The AT seemed to read disks pretty decently until this. The 360k drive would be a little sketchy at first.
I ran a cleaner disk in both AT drives and still getting a gouge. I ruined a couple blank 1.2MB disks and a few commercial game disks.
What should I do, rub the disk heads with a qtip and alcohol?