20 Apr
2003
20 Apr
'03
8:39 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
It's much easier to deal with them in a sleeve.
You only need to sacrifice one floppy for the sleeve, as you can
reuse it for all the floppies stripped of their skins.
When I was done
I tried a little experiment and placed the media alone
in the drive without a sleeve. It worked that was as well, although I
This is commonly called 'mounting a naked floppy' :-). I've done it too.
It's easiest if you have the drive out of its case, so you can carefully
feed the disk in and centre it over the spindle.
wouldn't recommend it for more then
entertainment value. I can imagine
the flex on the disk isn't good for it. . .
Well, it works well enough for you to make a backup of the disk, which is
all I'd want to do with any potentially damaged media....