On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:27 PM, QL-MyLink (f/fh) <[email protected]> wrote: > Norman said - > > "This is true, however, a number of the floppies in the drive (some > older, some newer than some of the affected ones) still work and still > have the data. At least, I can read them. > ------------------------------------- > > From experience - > > If push comes to shove - peel off the floppy's slide-cover. The spring is > now somewhere on (in) the carpet! > > Prise open the cover shell from the top (adjacent to the exposed platter, by > the notch) - catching the r/w window-cover is optional. > > (A samurai sword is too thick for prising.) > > Remove the platter-padding from the *lower* (drive side) side. > > Insert in drive. > > Oh yes it will - and it may be ejected as 'normal'. > > Get your data copied (?????) > > Write a pointed e-mail on this list. ;-) > > There. That didn't hurt did it!
I had to do a lot of data recovery on everything from floppies to 10MB removable hard drives for mainframes. With a frozen floppy, there's an escalation of methods, and the "strip, move data" step is the last resort. First, try to wiggle the metal centre disk. If it is free, try the disk. If fail, try to turn it. If it frees, try the disk. If fail, hold the disk by the corner and sharply rap it on the edge of a table, on all for corners and try. If fail, you'll need to strip the disk as described above. Dave _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
