help! how to recover water logged floppies?

From: TeoZ <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Sun Apr 20 10:02:00 2003

I think the 5.25 floppies are far more forgiving to abuse then the newer
higher density disks. I noticed even under normal use 3.5 HD disk will lose
some data after 8 yrs while my older C64 era 5.25's still work fine copy
protection and all.

I have also recovered disks that have been dropped in the snow/slush over a
weekend and they worked fine once they dried out. If they have dirt/sand you
have to clean the media before you even try to run them or they will get
scratched.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Barr" <stanb_at_dial.pipex.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: help! how to recover water logged floppies?


>
> I had something similar happen many years ago. I removed damaged disks
> from their sleeves, washed and dried them, and put each in turn into
> a clean new sleeve which I'd cut open and removed the disk from.
> This let me copy all the data off the damaged disks. Of course all the
> disks were then scrap, but the data was saved onto new disks.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stan Barr stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
>
> The future was never like this!
Received on Sun Apr 20 2003 - 10:02:00 BST

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