
This is usually caused by a dirty floppy disk head, Faulty floppy drive or expired floppy disk.No ID Address Mark Was Found On The Floppy Disk.Using Floppy Disk to Transfer Files from PC to ST | James Mackenzie's Blog - An easy method just using floppy disks.Atari-Compatible 3.5" Floppy Drives - Vintage Computer Forum.Atari-Forum - About selecting the correct FDD for your ST new to ST, any advice - Atari ST/TT/Falcon Computers - AtariAge Forums.Use Your PC to Create a Bootable Atari ST Game Disk |.Using an SD card and Ultrasatan to Transfer Files from PC to ST | - If you want to make a large number of files available on your ST, Ultrasatan is the way to go.Make USB Floppy Drive appear as A: | QuantumWarp - Sometimes a USB disk will appear as B: and this fixes this issue.Internal 3.5 FDD are better than USB ones.Windows 10 is blocking access to 720kb disks when using USB?.Is it possible to use Pasti to copy disks in an emulator? see WTF is "Pasti" - Atari ST/TT/Falcon Computers - AtariAge Forums.PaCifiST, an emulator, on a PC can be used to access the floppy drive without windows stepping in between.I am not sure how well it handles copy proteced disks. This can handle a wide variety of disks including Atari ST. Pasti can handle protected disks and other images but you need a real ST to use this software. /msa is used to specify the outputted image image should be a Magic Shadow Archiver formatted file./slow is used on disks that you are having trouble reading, but does not harm when running on healthy disks either, it is just more thorough.Makedisk /write c:\test\TEST.MSA /auto (this writes an image to a floppy disk) Makedisk /read /auto /msa /slow TEST.ST (this creates an image from a floppy disk) Copy the makedisk command onto the harddrive.Create a PC running DOS 6.22 (or FreeDOS should be fine) and Hard Drive formatted in FAT32 which does not have to be to large.Also makedisk cannot handle copy protected disks. This is the simplest method to image disks using DOS but is an old way of doing it becasue of the use of DOS. Their instructions are straight forward and I guide you to them for further advise. It will handle some copy protections I believe but not all, for that you will need a KyroFlux device. This is a modern Windows based disk acquisition and image file handler.

Floppy Image & file transfer program (best) Use the MSA (Magic Shadow Archiver) file format as it stores disk geometry and other things which can get around some weak disk protections. I point to other peoples work and highlight the main points. These are a collection of notes for newbies.
