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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: orange on September 20, 2011, 08:48:30 PM

Title: recovering diskettes
Post by: orange on September 20, 2011, 08:48:30 PM

great debate on slashdot about restoring old diskettes:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/1639232/Ask-Slashdot-Recovering-Data-From-20-Year-Old-Diskettes

they mention this link:
http://chrisfenton.com/cray-1-digital-archeology/

Title: Re: recovering diskettes
Post by: odin on September 21, 2011, 01:31:40 AM

Interesting!

Title: Re: recovering diskettes
Post by: amigadave on September 21, 2011, 04:11:01 AM

The multiple read attempt and multiple floppy drive method has worked most of the time for me.  Having 4 floppy drives hooked up to your Amiga makes it more convenient to try several floppy drives on the same faulty floppy disk.