How to read recalcitrant floppies?

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Sat Apr 17 23:35:29 1999

Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> I am attempting to back up some floppies from a project I did a few years ago.
> The sets of 3.5" 1.44Mb IBM floppies have been stored in a box, in a cool and
> dry room. Out of one set of 12 and one set of 15 disks, I have four disks
> that have read errors that DOS won't get past, bad sectors and the like.

One program I have used with a great deal of success is Spinrite.
Received on Sat Apr 17 1999 - 23:35:29 BST