getting info from old disks

[jeffisme]

hi, I must have been one of the original Amiga owners back in the 1980s and had pretty much every Amiga up through I think it was the 4000 (what a great computer that was).

I wrote a book on that computer and that's my question. If I remember correctly, I wrote it on WordPerfect. I saved the chapter disks (but not the wordperfect disk) and put them away. Recently, I had an offer to republish the book but when I took the disks out and put them in a 500, all of them came up DF0:bad on the Workbench screen. I had some Mac disks in there and they show up fine on my Mac. I just can't believe that every single one of the amiga disks has gone bad. They were all kept in a clean, dry box.

Or am I just missing something? Do I need to find and load a wordperfect disk first? do disks created on a 4000 not read on a 500? Is there any way to pull the files off these disks even with the df0:bad reading?

thanks for any information,

jeffk

[jeffisme]

I was thinking that. but here's the story: I bought the computer off ebay just for this purpose. when I started it up, the workbench disk he sent wouldn't work. He then sent another, and it worked fine. He also sent something called "firepower," which I didn't start but did insert into the drive as a kind of test, and the computer read that as well.

if the drive was bad, wouldn't it not be able to read any of those disks that he sent?

[jeffisme]

Alas, the drive and the computer are long gone.
I'm just puzzled why all my Mac floppies in the same box and the same year work fine. I guess that's why I was hopeful it wasn't the disks but the computer.