help! how to recover water logged floppies?

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun Apr 20 13:34:40 2003

> 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....

-tony
Received on Sun Apr 20 2003 - 13:34:40 BST