:-) Other than that, I'm pretty sure they are just like traditional floppies, and are floating in between two layers of antistatic felt-like material. There shouldnt be anything to worry about in terms of breaking any mechanics.
Giving this more thought, something I can recall from many years ago in dealing with similar issues, was lightly twisting the casing. Holding the disk with two hands, use one hand to twist in one directions, while simultaneously twisting in the opposite direction with the other hand. This would be something akin to trying to twist and break it - but you want to do it very lightly in order to break the vaporlock (for lack of a better way to describe it) inside the disk. I have done this with 3.5in floppies - and it may work with Zip disks too. Good luck! -- Espi On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been able to get some movement, lateral only and very little even > then, (forgot the pencil eraser trick) but could not get it to revolve > around the center hole. I will see if I can find a pencil, do people still > use them? > > Jon > > ------------------------------ > From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:07:13 -0700 > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Anyone have a trick for ZIP's > To: [email protected] > > > Oh, physically frozen? IIRC, the disk is free-floating in its housing, > with an exposed metal disk on its underside that is at the center of the > magnetic media. Have you tried using your fingers (or perhaps pencil > erasers) to manually try to spin it? Have you tried giving it a light > shake? > > -- > Espi > > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nope no sound at all. I think the disk is frozen within the housing but I > don't have the tools to look at this without destruction of the housing or > the disk. I almost wish it were the click of death at least then I would > know. > > Jon > > ------------------------------ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Anyone have a trick for ZIP's > Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 09:56:31 -0500 > > > Click of Death?... > > Oh ZIP Disks…. [Shudders] > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jon Harris > *Sent:* Thursday, August 01, 2013 9:28 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [NTSysADM] Anyone have a trick for ZIP's > > I have some ZIP disks that appear to be frozen i.e. will not turn. I > would really like to get a look at the contents of these disks. Anyone > have any tricks for freeing them up again? They have not been touched in > years possibly as many as 10 maybe more. From the ones I have been able to > get data from the last dates were early to mid 2000. > > Thanks for any ideas, > > Jon > > >
