Restoring old floppies to usable state

From: JT Reynolds <jtr_1_only_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed Feb 4 14:45:32 2004

Try http://www.knightsolutions.com.au/files/apps/spinrite%205/

This program runs on any IBM compatible. If you have such with the correct
drive type then this program will exhaustively test and repair the surface
of any drive you care to test.

----- Original Message -----
From: "chris" <cb_at_mythtech.net>
To: "Classic Computers" <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: Restoring old floppies to usable state



> I'll run a few disks thru a PC to use better surface testing tools (any
> of my good Mac tools are either not readily available, or will only run
> on newer macs that have problems with 800k disks in the best of
> situations, so I wouldn't be able to trust the results to the disk or the
> mac being the source of error)
>
>
> Thanks
>
> -chris
> <http://www.mythtech.net>
>
>
Received on Wed Feb 04 2004 - 14:45:32 GMT