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If it was HD then the data is probably gone. Or at least the floppy will have read issues. 720KB should do a bit better. I have recovered data from a lot of ol
by Tor3 4y ago
If it was HD then the data is probably gone. Or at least the floppy will have read issues. 720KB should do a bit better.
I have recovered data from a lot of old media, CCT tapes, floppies, 3.5" floppies - except that in practice it turned out that a) CCT ok. No problems. b) 8" floppies ok. No problems. c) 5.25" floppies (low density, high density) ok. No problems (except that for a while I didn't have a controller which could read a minority of them - they're FM, not MFM), d) 3.5" Not ok. All unreadable. All of them. And that was not due to the drive - I have lots of drives, including one I bought because it was calibrated. All of the media had been stored either in the same location or in a similar environment, but at this point I don't even bother trying those darn 3.5" floppies unless they're written recently. I'll just be a ton of read errors.