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Starting at Windows Me, Microsoft simplified driver access to basic devices by abstracting the hardware layer for basic operations. Prior to that, and in Unix variant OS's you are able to communicate more directly with the hardware itself. Any generic application is simply showing a representative picture. Even that last one. I would be surprised if you intentionally damaged a disk in a pattern if it show up on that screen.

Rowan Hawkins
– Rowan Hawkins

2022-01-16 12:36:38 +00:00
Commented Jan 16, 2022 at 12:36
@RowanHawkins I'm not really sure what you mean by 'intentionally damaged a disk in a pattern [...]Even that last one'? If you reffer to image 4b, then there is no damage. it shows a common distribution of sectors of a soft sectored format - that is when the OS does not honour the index hole (quite common). Tracks bear a skew due to head movement time during formating.

Raffzahn
– Raffzahn

2022-01-16 17:01:50 +00:00
Commented Jan 16, 2022 at 17:01
open the shutter, press hard... draw an x in ball point pen, read the disk.

Rowan Hawkins
– Rowan Hawkins

2022-01-17 04:55:01 +00:00
Commented Jan 17, 2022 at 4:55

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