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Darn that's a shame. I wonder if you could retrieve some of the data using hardware like kryoflux.
by anfractuosity 7y ago
Darn that's a shame. I wonder if you could retrieve some of the data using hardware like kryoflux.
- cortesoft 7y agoI actually just replied to the person suggesting kryoflux... I was able to recover most of my seeming corrupted disks using kryoflux and a bunch of different floppy drives... different drives were able to read different sectors, which lead me to be able to recover the entire image.
- anfractuosity 7y agoThat's really cool to hear :) Also interesting that you used different drives to achieve that too, I wonder why different drives could read different sectors. Possibly the pickup coil of the read head was slightly different size maybe? Or the stepper motor aligns the head to slightly different positions of the track?
- cortesoft 7y agoNot exactly sure. Those were some of my theories, too.
- mehrdadn 7y agoWere they able to read those sectors correctly? (Can you tell?)
- cortesoft 7y agoYes. Kryoflux is pretty good at not saying a sector is good unless it actually is. I was able to mount almost all of the images I made this way, and haven't seen data corruption issues.
- aidenn0 7y agoAll of my floppies are either very old commercial software (that I could likely download from an abandonware site) or personal data that I backed up a long time ago.