Probably a noob question, but here goes..

I have a decent pile of disks with games, demos, etc. some work some don't.

- what's the best way to check if a game/disc that doesn't work is just corrupt and can be formatted to be reused of if it just get trashed?

- what's the best tool to format them?

I have an hxc emulator never used yet, a gotek on the way, and even a pcmcia transfer kit. With any of these I should be able to write image files to real disks. (Because sure, while we have the practicality of the emulation solutns for the drive, we all like to pop in a disk every ince in a while, right? ). One thing that throws me off is I heard Gotek does not support protected files, etc. and only supports adf files.   if that's the case, does that mean I would not be able to oroperly recreate a physical disk with it? And what's the difference in doing it with the transfer kit if it also transfers adf images as well?

Thanks!