Disks in question are reporting they need to be formatted so I am guessing they
have lost(?) the correct bit/byte at the head of the disk and I don't have my
old tools to look at the bit and byte level of a drive. I was so glad when
things moved to DVD's guess I should have figured I would get bit by old disks
at some point.
Jon
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:13:58 -0400
> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Floppy disk recovery tool
> To: [email protected]
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Anyone have a favorite recovery tool for getting to 3.5 and maybe even 5.25
> > floppies. I know they are old but sometimes we don't keep all of the
> > archives on current media this is one of those times.
>
> I presume you're getting read errors on the disk?
>
> I'd prolly try dd_rhelp (Linux tool).
>
> Floppy tech is old enough that the snake oil in SpinRite might
> actually apply. (Or not. I don't know, I'm just saying that Gibson's
> claims aren't obviously bogus for floppies, the way they are for
> modern hard disks.)
>
> -- Ben
>
>
