On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Terry Collins wrote: Rather depends upon the degree of affectation. As a first step, I would find enough 8" floppies of the same type (SS/DSDD) as are affected plus at least one. Trim off the top edge of the jacket of one of the good disks and remove the disk. Do the same to one of the damaged ones of the same type. Keep track of which is the upper side. If needed - probably - gently wash the surfaces of the disk with a mild soap solution and rinse with distilled water. Air dry. When dry, insert into the prepared jacket, insert in drive and make a copy to one of the other disk. Repeat for other damaged disks. You can save the removed disks between clean paper if you like with side and disk name marked in the hub area. - don