Well ok so now I got my Amiga back in its original state that is back to Desktop.
SO I went to my bedroom wardrobe and got out all my 3 boxes of discs, wow they have not been touched for years and not come in contact with any thing that is likely to create any such damage.
I have found that many are now corrupt and no longer usable, (ohhh boy this is going to be fun) now I got loads of 1.44 floppies, but not enough DD so is there any where these days I can still get those floppy discs from as I need to make loads of new backups. If not then I shall have to use the 1.44 ones.
TIA,
Mike.
Try Redrumloa, a member and moderator here who has a store of Amiga goods. I got a couple of stacks of brand new DD floppy disks from him a few months ago. He might still have some left to sell. AmigaKit may also have some to sell, since you have dealt with them already to get the new floppy drive. I would suggest like others have done that you try another Amiga, another floppy drive in your Amiga, or find some other way to test the floppies and your floppy drive before deciding that 30% of your floppy disks are bad. Some of them may still be able to be read on different floppy drives that have slight adjustments different than your new drive that allow the disk to be read correctly. Just slight alignment differences could make the difference between reading the disk or finding several unreadable blocks on the disk.
Good luck finding a solution that will work. I know that I still have hundreds of original disks that I want to convert to adf's to preserve my library of software, but I also need to learn all the tricks of removing copy protection on some of them, or duplicating the disks with the copy protection in place on others, or lastly learn how to convert disks with copy protection to an adf, or another image format that will allow me to safely preserve all of my original floppies for games, and other Amiga productivity software.
