Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : Nightfox
From : StormTrooper
Date : Mon Apr 28 2025 09:28 am

 Ni> I've only had one CD go bad, and it was a CD-RW.  I'd used it as a
 Ni> backup for some of my college work (for some reason I thought I'd burn
 Ni> an updated version of my college work on it some day). Just months
 Ni> later, I tried to copy it back to my computer and it was having a hard
 Ni> time copying from one spot on the disc. Apparently it started to go
 Ni> bad..  I found a program that would keep trying repeatedly to copy a
 Ni> file until it succeeded, and I tried that with my CD-RW disc. After a

There was a time, around 95/6 where the with burning software was ALL buggy. If you burnt a CD using win95, it would become useless on any later O/S I'm can't attest to what the actual error is, but I can attest it was a thing.. had a series of CDs that wouldn't read, hung on to them for years til I discovered what the issue was.

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