Manual - Section 1: mbadblocks

Name

mbadblocks - tests a floppy disk, and marks the bad blocks in the FAT

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Description

The

mbadblocks

command is used to scan an MS-DOS floppy and mark its unused bad blocks as bad. It uses the following syntax:

mbadblocks

drive

Mbadblocks

scans an MS-DOS floppy for bad blocks. All unused bad blocks are marked as such in the FAT. This is intended to be used right after

mformat

. It is not intended to salvage bad disks.

Bugs

Mbadblocks

should (but doesn’t yet :-( ) also try to salvage bad blocks which are in use by reading them repeatedly, and then mark them bad.

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