Re: Resurrecting dead floppies with alcohol

Well, it's been a few months since I posted to the group asking how to
restore "dead" floppies, and one tip* that was given was to use
isopropyl alcohol.
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I've not had these old Macs booted since I read that message, been
hellish busy, but I just fired up my Performa 5320, applied some
alcohol to my Civilization floppies that had hitherto resolutely
refused to be read, et voila! The discs all mounted!
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It took a few attempts, actually, maybe 4 or 5 applications of alocohol
to each disk before each finally mounted. I was able to back-up each
floppy to hard disk, too.
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A great result! I intend to work through my entire collection of
big-box floppy games. :)
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I have ditched a lot of disks over the years that refused to mount.
Damn shame, as if I knew this trick I could probably have salvaged a
lot of them. PD, newsletter/user groups stuff, magazine cover disks,
all lost, like tears in rain. :(
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Anyway, massive gratitude to Mr Finnigan for the tip!
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*I cannot reply to the post where the tip was given, as it seems
Eternal September has suffered a catastrophic failure and lost all
messages older than a couple of months. I hope Ray Banana gets them
back!