Reading old 5.25" floppies
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Mar 15, 20266504 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Summary: Having problems reading some old 5.25" floppies. Looking for advice on what else I can try before declaring the disks un-retrievable and giving-up. Details: I recently found a box of old 5.25" DSDD floppy disks dating for the about 1988-89. They are MS-DOS FAT format. They seemed in good p…
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Fix for: Reading old 5.25" floppies
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5 1/4" disks were notorious for losing data. Don't need to store them near a magnetic field, they can self-demagnetize. The next problem is that tracks are located by a stepper motor. This means that you might actually need the original drive that w…
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