20 Apr
2003
20 Apr
'03
3:02 a.m.
I think the 5.25 floppies are far more forgiving to abuse then the newer
higher density disks. I noticed even under normal use 3.5 HD disk will lose
some data after 8 yrs while my older C64 era 5.25's still work fine copy
protection and all.
I have also recovered disks that have been dropped in the snow/slush over a
weekend and they worked fine once they dried out. If they have dirt/sand you
have to clean the media before you even try to run them or they will get
scratched.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Barr" <stanb(a)dial.pipex.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: help! how to recover water logged floppies?
I had something similar happen many years ago. I removed damaged disks
from their sleeves, washed and dried them, and put each in turn into
a clean new sleeve which I'd cut open and removed the disk from.
This let me copy all the data off the damaged disks. Of course all the
disks were then scrap, but the data was saved onto new disks.
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!