Coming from a Windows guy that still uses floppies.... If Win2k/XP are asking to reformat the disk, then they may be damaged. I have not had good luck with keeping floppies for extended periods of time.
You *might* try this disk in several different machine (different floppy drives) in the hopes that one of them will read them. -Alan On 4/17/2013 8:01 AM, Alan Peterson wrote: > So far the web has been of no use to me; is there a way to read old > (Win95,98) floppy diskettes under Linux? I have a considerable amount of > material (old Radio World articles, MIDI compositions etc) that I want > converted to a more modern storage format. > > Stuffing them into a WinXP or Win2K box results in a request to reformat the > disk, and I definitely don't want that. Seeking good ideas from anybody. > Thanks. > > -AP > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
