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Use, restoration and imaging of floppy disks; low-level formats of floppy media. Consider [file-system] for high-level formatting.

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Magnetic exposure to floppy disk damages file system and requires complete reformat?

The magnetic field doesn't destroy only the file contents, but the contents of the directory blocks and the block allocation table, as well as the sector markers on the disk itself. A full sector on a …
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