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The rule for preserving floppies is to not use Windows. Windows is known for automatically writing to disks, so you're not preserving the original anymore, you
by Dwedit 3mo ago
The rule for preserving floppies is to not use Windows. Windows is known for automatically writing to disks, so you're not preserving the original anymore, you're preserving the changes that Windows made to the disk.
- hypercube33 3mo agoDont most disks have write protection? Would that not be sufficient?
- anjackson 3mo agoUnfortunately, some USB floppy drives ignore the read-write tab. It's not enforced at the hardware level.
- jchw 3mo agoIf you're using Kryoflux or a similar controller solution (and they mention several) it should bypass this problem since then the drive doesn't show up as a normal floppy drive at all. So in this case it shouldn't matter.