A colleague phoned me at work to tell me that he'd copied some files to a floppy disk. The student who owned the disk would pop along shortly for assistance of some kind. My colleague wasn't daft and knew how to copy files.
The student turned up, opened out his pockets and dropped the floppy disk. The disk fell four feet onto a carpeted floor.
I inserted the floppy disk into my Mac, but the disk was garbage. It had lost all of the data and all of its formatting. Dropping the disk had wiped its contents.
Brown particles on plastic media can provide reliable storage media or a disaster in waiting. And the medium is so contrary. I sort of believe that Gorgonops' solution might work for floppy disks. I'm eyeing some magnets retrieved from a hard disk head. But I know people who used a magnetic bulk eraser (designed for tape media) on Zip and Jaz cartridges which never worked again.
A quick query for Syntho: Have you tried writing disk images to those floppies? Using different image copiers?
The student turned up, opened out his pockets and dropped the floppy disk. The disk fell four feet onto a carpeted floor.
I inserted the floppy disk into my Mac, but the disk was garbage. It had lost all of the data and all of its formatting. Dropping the disk had wiped its contents.
Brown particles on plastic media can provide reliable storage media or a disaster in waiting. And the medium is so contrary. I sort of believe that Gorgonops' solution might work for floppy disks. I'm eyeing some magnets retrieved from a hard disk head. But I know people who used a magnetic bulk eraser (designed for tape media) on Zip and Jaz cartridges which never worked again.
A quick query for Syntho: Have you tried writing disk images to those floppies? Using different image copiers?