examing disk platters was Re: Microscopes

On 10/22/2012 03:22 PM, Chris Tofu wrote: Then saying "floppy", "diskette" or similar would get your point across. Or you could use the term of art "cookie" if you wanted. As I and others have said, you need to use a magnetic developer (I gave a bunch of them) to make the domain walls visible. Even so, if there's a media defect, that may not help you. I've never really found any reason not to use the Catweasel for this kind of thing. As with any other low-level tool (and the CW is VERY low-level), knowing what you're doing is essential. The one thing a CW gives you is a complete history of where the flux changes occur, which means that you can add a missing one or remove an extraneous one. It works very well, if you're up to writing your own recovery tools. --Chuck