Finally i have FDD1 drive

[DARKGATE]

  Bye at alls, after long time i'm back, I had health problems, now I'm better, finally have the FDD1 drive for my  AMSTRAD CPC 464, are very happy, my games on disk are (SORCERY PLUS) and (MIDNIGHT RESISTANCE) and GOLDEN AXE, but on side two the floppy don't read  .

Have questions, please help me.
1) When a floppy is damaged i can repair it?
2) If wont delete all files on disk and put ohers files or games?
3) If download a file .dsk  how put this file on real floppy of AMSTRAD, or tranfer by pc to real floppy?
4) How format a real floppy amstrad?
Thank you.

[robcfg]

If yours are original disks, I'd check first that they don't have anything written on the second side of the disk. That was very common, program came written on one side and the second side was unformatted.


Do you have a system disk or a disk you can format without repenting later?


A system disk should have data on both sides.


Just to be sure, you know 

[AMSDOS]

If yours are original disks, I'd check first that they don't have anything written on the second side of the disk. That was very common, program came written on one side and the second side was unformatted.

That's unfortunate given a Cassette equivalent would give you a program on the 2nd side of the tape. Ok maybe not everyone did this, it might of been more common in Budget Games or games which weren't Multi-loaders. I guess a software company would of got a better reputation if they gave disc users the program on both sides of the disc. 


Some Discs seem dodgy when you get them cause they give you the read-fail routine if you tried to CAT the disc. It's usually worth trying |CPM if you get ones like that.

[Gryzor]

Hello mate!

Good to hear you're doing better, hope it was nothing too serious!

As far as your questions go:
-I'm not aware of any method to restore a floppy disk. I know it could be done on the ST or Amiga (programs used to read/write a sector repeatedly), but I don't remember anything similar for the CPC...
-Transfer dsk to floppy: you can actually connect your drive to the PC, though the easiest way I guess is with an HxC floppy emulator and a copy utility.
-To format a disk take a look here:

DDI-1 new belt installed, but after one succes, always read-fail