help! how to recover water logged floppies?

From: Kevin Handy <kth_at_srv.net>
Date: Sun Apr 20 15:39:01 2003

Tony Duell wrote:

>>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
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>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.
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>>wouldn't recommend it for more then entertainment value. I can imagine
>>the flex on the disk isn't good for it. . .
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>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....
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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.
Received on Sun Apr 20 2003 - 15:39:01 BST