I would just assume all these disks went bad and leave it at that, but what's really weird here is that every single one of these "defective" disks will still boot in my MSX with the last game I wrote to them - no signs of trouble reading any of the data on them whatsoever, I just (seemingly) can't ever write over it again. I've tried writing to other disks in my collection (ones that I had previously "permanently" written to, with no intent of ever changing their contents), and some of those have started giving me the same error - though others work just fine, and I'm able to write to them without any trouble at all. And when I try to format them on my MSX itself through CALL FORMAT, I get a bad disk error. Even when I try to reformat them in Disk Manager, I just get "The operation was completed successfully" the second I start. However, recently, all four of these disks have just immediately started giving me "The operation was completed successfully" within one second of starting a write through Disk Manager - I'm unable to write any data to them at all anymore, as they just immediately shut down on me as soon as I try. These have been prepared as you'd expect: I put a piece of tape over the holes of 1.44 MB floppies to trick the MSX (and my Windows USB floppy drive) into thinking they're 720kb disks, and formatted them through Disk Manager (on a Windows 7 machine) prior to writing MSX data to them for the first time.įor the last year or so, I've had no trouble with this, and have used this technique to sample any number of games on my Panasonic FS-A1WX MSX2+ system. I have a series of blank floppy disks that I've labeled A through D, which I use as generic disks whenever I want to write some new game and try it out. I've been having some unique issues with my floppies recently, and figure some of you guys may have an idea what the cause could be.
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