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It's impressive that those 5.25" floppy disks are still good. Most of my 3.5" ones bit the dust long ago, along with nearly all my CD-Rs.
by droithomme 8y ago
It's impressive that those 5.25" floppy disks are still good. Most of my 3.5" ones bit the dust long ago, along with nearly all my CD-Rs.
- ido 8y ago5.25" were always more durable than the 1.44mb 3.5" ones. I used an '87-vintage PC XT clone till I got a Pentium in '95 & kept the old computer in a closet. When I booted it up a few years later all my 5.25" still worked where as brand new 3.5" ones would be a good bet to not be readable even after a single rewrite.
- jki275 8y agoI recently found a stack of 3.5" floppies from the 90's, about 1/3 of them had errors. I was able to read most of the data from those -- I think I only ran into one that was completely dead.