On 18-mrt-05, at 5:12, Thomas Burns wrote:
A related question. Since 3.5 floppies are a questionable medium for storing old files, has anyone archived all their old stuff? I have like 200 floppies of images and games and old word documents. Any advice for burning all that stuff to CDs?i've used mo (magneto optical) disks to transfer data from floppy's. and they are ver suitable if you want to make a copy of for example a old harddrive like the HD20 or the HD20 SC. you can lock them so when transferring the data to a newer system, de data keeps intact.
for old floppies like 400k or originals (virgin copies) i use disk copy 4.2 or disk copy 6.3 set to 4.2 format. of course allways with the floppy locked.
there is however a problem with copy-protected disks. disk copy cannot cope with them and a copy will not work.
the solution is to use a duplicate floppy as an archive, made with the program copy II mac, running on an old 512. be aware that it only can handle 400k floppy's or 79 tracks. use the bit copy. the sector copy will not copy the protection scheme. Also be aware that copy II mac does not verify the disk after copying. so use known good disks.
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