Rod H wrote, on 26/Feb/12 21:01 | Feb26:
Rod/
Hello,
This is my first time on the QL forum so please be gentle.
Welcome indeed.
There is a separate 'Forum' which I am sure others will tell you about.
This we call the 'Mailing List'.
I've recently dug out my QL gear to sadly find that the years have not been
kind to my microdrive carts, Just no quality anymore...it's only been 25 years!
As I'm sure you all are aware, the little foam pad crumbles or falls off. I
want to copy those carts that are still functioning before they give up the
ghost. Can anyone give me a suggestion of a program that will simply copy my
operable carts onto a disk. I use a Trump Card and 3.5 inch disks but some of
my library are still on mdv cart. Wcopy does not work for all.
Many thanks in advance,
Rod Humphreys
Delta, BC, Canada
You are very lucky the hardware is working, especially the keyboard
membrane.
I don't know if your Trump Card has the "format ram1_,mdv1_" command -
part of the Tony Tebby toolkits on interfaces.
'ram1_' part can be any valid drive.
The beauty of this is that all sectors are copied, and any bad files
have '*' appended.
Further goes often recover more files.
If the files are text (or basic) good parts can be read in a text editor.
... and it is quick.
I once used this to recover data from about 100 mdvs owned by a
Winchester archaeology group. I recovered about 95% of the data.
... and I bet the foam pads can be replaced.
Tony
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