I know this has been asked dozens of times before, but what would people recommend as a tool for fixing errors on floppies
[most of them are probably beyond hope, but would like to give it a go with a few of the more cherished ones]

Cheers

10 years ago I used diskdoctor quite often for recovering files using a dodgey floppy drive (lost by the same drive).

It did successfully retrieve most of the files.

Greetings,

I tried FixDisk v1.1 before. Helped me since I've been using WB 1.3. Dos and non-Dos alike. For non-dos just track repair works a charm. with final version(v1.2) from Aminet, you have the option to save that selected track to another disk or ram disk. This program can also repair Hard disk partitions not more than 40MB I think. Too bad the program was never improve cause it was my first choice. :-) Saved me lots of data back in those days before disksalv. I turned to disksalv for Hard disks repairs/validation/undelete and different File system support(OFS/SFS/FFS).

Regards,

Gizz

Rather than distroy your disks with software modifying them, why not try a physical solution first. It may just be dust on the disk surface.

Look here:
http://www.caps-project.org/articles.php?id=spinandblow

This has proven about 50-60% effective and has been tried with 100's of disks.

You can even go as far as using some alcohol and cleaning the disk surface with a cotton bud. Of course, you need to be very careful with this.

Use X-Copy's "verify" tool to see if you disk works again yet. Or, if the disk is not AmigaDOS format, like games, your only option if to try booting/playing them. Or, if they are original games and not been preserved by CAPS yet, you might want to contact them, and they will tell you.

If many of your disks appear damaged, it may be that your drive heads need a clean.

Note: Do any of the above at your own risk. It is unlikely you will make the disk any worse by the above (as long as you are careful), but you should make a backup of the disks first just in case.