20 Apr
2003
20 Apr
'03
6:31 a.m.
I had a small accident in my basement a couple of days
ago and in
cleaning everything out I discovered an old box of 5.25 TRS-80/Heathkit
floppies with all my old stuff on them were damp with water. I let them
air dry overnight, but some of them still don't spin freely.
What can I do to recover these disks - I hate to lose them. What sort of
The best way to do it is to _carefully_ slit open the jacket along one
side and extract the media. Clean that carefully (with propan-2-ol, for
example), and slip it into a slit-open jacket obtained from a disk that's
not waterlogged. Of course make sure you get the media in the right way
up.
Once you've done this, make a backup of the disk, of course.
-tony