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"Oszifox" V 4.2 (probably!) "Pen" scope (also sold as the RadioShack "Probescope")
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<blockquote data-quote="CraigInUSA" data-source="post: 1147422" data-attributes="member: 418656"><p>If the ProbeScope v4.1 you got isn't working well enough for you, I have a good ProbeScope v4.2 Floppy. I recently made an image for backup with WinImage. It's a free program download for Windows that can restore a Floppy from image, create an image of a Floppy, compare a Floppy to an image created and vice versa, and it can check a Floppy for bad sectors. If it finds bad sectors, it will try to repair them, sometimes successfully, and will mark them bad if it can't so images don't try to use bad sectors. The image is 1.40MB in size and plenty small enough for an email attachment. If you want it and have a good Floppy to put it on, or one that WinImage tells you is good enough, just give me you email address. A formatted 1.44MB Floppy is really only 1.39MB. The ProbeScope v4.2 Floppy has 710KB in files with 713KB free, so there should be room on most any Floppy, depending on how many bad sectors there are. You didn't reply with your success, so maybe what you got didn't work for you for some reason.</p><p></p><p>You can find WinImage at <a href="https://www.winimage.com/download.htm" target="_blank">Download WinImage</a>. It's available for Windows XP/Vista/7/10/11, and Server up to 2022 and it comes with the WinImage self-extractor. So install it on a computer with a Floppy Drive and check out your Floppies and see if one can hold 710KB, or 727,040 bytes.</p><p></p><p>Honestly, I can't believe my Floppy is still good after all these years, but it is. However, to use it, you'll need Windows 98/98SE at the oldest. I was released for Windows 3.x and 95, but it works with Windows 98SE on a PC with a built-in Serial port. It's not working on XP Pro with a StatTech Serial PCI card, so I'm, going to try it in an older HP Pavilion 6640C with a built-in Serial port and Windows XP Pro installed. The issue c ould be the PCI Serial Card, but I'm not expecting much. We'll see. It works on that older PC with Windows 98SE installed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CraigInUSA, post: 1147422, member: 418656"] If the ProbeScope v4.1 you got isn't working well enough for you, I have a good ProbeScope v4.2 Floppy. I recently made an image for backup with WinImage. It's a free program download for Windows that can restore a Floppy from image, create an image of a Floppy, compare a Floppy to an image created and vice versa, and it can check a Floppy for bad sectors. If it finds bad sectors, it will try to repair them, sometimes successfully, and will mark them bad if it can't so images don't try to use bad sectors. The image is 1.40MB in size and plenty small enough for an email attachment. If you want it and have a good Floppy to put it on, or one that WinImage tells you is good enough, just give me you email address. A formatted 1.44MB Floppy is really only 1.39MB. The ProbeScope v4.2 Floppy has 710KB in files with 713KB free, so there should be room on most any Floppy, depending on how many bad sectors there are. You didn't reply with your success, so maybe what you got didn't work for you for some reason. You can find WinImage at [URL="https://www.winimage.com/download.htm"]Download WinImage[/URL]. It's available for Windows XP/Vista/7/10/11, and Server up to 2022 and it comes with the WinImage self-extractor. So install it on a computer with a Floppy Drive and check out your Floppies and see if one can hold 710KB, or 727,040 bytes. Honestly, I can't believe my Floppy is still good after all these years, but it is. However, to use it, you'll need Windows 98/98SE at the oldest. I was released for Windows 3.x and 95, but it works with Windows 98SE on a PC with a built-in Serial port. It's not working on XP Pro with a StatTech Serial PCI card, so I'm, going to try it in an older HP Pavilion 6640C with a built-in Serial port and Windows XP Pro installed. The issue c ould be the PCI Serial Card, but I'm not expecting much. We'll see. It works on that older PC with Windows 98SE installed. [/QUOTE]
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