Are you sure your machine will only read newer formats? My iMac 500 Indigo
will read the old 400/800 floppies. Sounds like an old cobblers to me!

Regards
Don
>> 
> Are you sure that the disk is unreadable ?? If I remember right, Apple
> dropped all support for 400K disks in later machines, try reading it in an
> older machine such as an SE running OS 6xx it may still work, if it does
> then make an image straight away.
> Also there are utilities to read damaged disks (I think Norton could do
> this) and you may find that you can get all the data off ok and re-create
> the disk.
> Ben.
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