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[OT] another floppy question

• Posted by irvm at ellijay.com Jun 10, 2003
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I dug out a box of about 200 floppy disks today - old stuff I wrote 5-10 years 
ago, and tried to look thru them. 

Some - maybe 1 out of 3 - could be read, the others, which I'm sure *used* to 
have data on them, were unreadable.  OK, so maybe data fades away 
over the years, no great loss. I'll just re-format these disks and use them 
for something else, right ?  

Wrong. Barely 1 out of 10 could be formatted using DOS 6.2, Windows 98,
or Linux.
The rest return errors, usually in track 0.

So I'm stuck with a huge pile of unusable disks. 
Before you say something is wrong with my disk drive, let me point out that 
I have 3 pc's and 5 floppy drives. Results are the same regardless.

I expect stuff in the fridge to go bad after a while, but disks?

Irv