Text 14763, 64 rader
Skriven 2006-01-17 09:20:00 av George Vandervort (1:382/8)
  Kommentar till text 14761 av Jason Lamb (1:106/2000.0)
Ärende: 5 1/4" Disks
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Hello Jason!

I forgot to tell you the Bad New part in my
previous message, but Alan Zisman mentioned it.

the 5 1/4" disk both 360's and 1.2 mb disk
use a "ferrious Oxide" coating to store Data
on the disk, and it "oxidised very quickly
so that after 6 months or so the degradation
of the Data on that particular disk may no
longer be readable...

Anything on Floppies that I valued, I would
Backup to a Fresh Floppy every 3 or 4 months
including making several backups of my Factory
Store Bought Original disk..

and kept my Original Disk sealed up in
Zip-Locked Bags in a Dark closet..

So like Alan said, if your Floppies are
several years old, chances are that
they may no longer be readable.. <sigh>

Tuesday January 17 2006 08:58, Alan Zisman wrote to Jason Lamb:

 AZ> -=> Jason Lamb wrote to All <=-
 AZ>
 JL>> I was doing some cleaning around my place and found some 5 1/4"
 JL>> floppies. I used them with an old system that I no longer have.
 JL>> Is there a way (free or cheap) that I can see what is on them and
 JL>> maybe burn the files on a CD? If not, I guess I should throw them
 JL>> out. I would really like to see what is on them first. There may
 JL>> be some old files or programs that I long forgot about.
 AZ>
 AZ>  In order to see what's on them, you'll need to find a system with a 5
 AZ> 1/4" disk drive. I actually keep a drive on a P-II-400 system for just
 AZ> those sorts of times, for instance.
 AZ>
 AZ>  You can probably find an old 5 1/4" drive (make sure to get a 1.2 MB
 AZ> drive, not the older 360 kb ones) for next to nothing, however many
 AZ> (most? all?) newer PCs no longer support 5 1/4" drives in their
 AZ> BIOSes, and I'm not sure in WinXP includes support for such hardware.
 AZ>
 AZ>  Moreover, floppy diskettes deteriorate with age... it is quite
 AZ> possible that much of the data on the disks is no longer readable.
 AZ> ... Inet mail to: alan (at) zisman (dot) ca
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 AZ> (1:106/2000)


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George Vandervort
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