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Re: [OT] another floppy question

• Posted by Igor Kachan <kinz at peterlink.ru> Jun 10, 2003
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Hello Irv:

> 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

Strange ...

These days I burned CD-R with my old stuff from floppies.

470 - (1.44/3'')- 3 bad, 43 have 1..2 files with bad sectors.
138 - (1.2/5'') - all good.
 80 - (720k/5'')- 3 have 1 file with bad sector.

Maybe, just the hot climate of your land?

Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru