1 May
2010
1 May
'10
4:30 a.m.
Hello Tony, everybody:
I also still use floppies (3 1/2" and 3" on Amstrad CPC) for some of
my data. I also keep a few 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 drives, as well as a couple
of ZIP drives. Every now and then, some people show up and ask me to
help them recover some old data stored in some old media. The last one
was a ZIP drive, and the previous one was a set of five 5 1/4" disks.
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 08:08:42PM +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
I acutally wonder if they bother to align such drives
at the factory, the price makes me wonder if they can, and tests on a
couple of such drives indicate they're not aligned properly...
Tony, is it easy to realign them? I would like to keep them in
optimal condition (what I do now is clean them, and keep them in a
plastic bag, to preserve them from getting dust, and put them into a
box for storage on a clean, dry place. I would like to realign them
properly before I put them in use again, if it's something easy to do
that I can do myself.
Also, any other advices on how to preserve, clean, store, etc. them I
would appreciate. :-)
Thank you and regards,
?ngel.