Unless you're using a commercial grade burner and disks, at best DVDs have a life of about 25 years (Most of what consumers buy is much less).
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 6:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Floppy disk recovery tool 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]<mailto:[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:13:58 -0400 > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Floppy disk recovery tool > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Jon Harris > <[email protected]<mailto:[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 > >
