Re: Restoring dead floppies

scole wrote:

 
It should be trivial to find digital back-ups of these on the web but
are these disks physically beyond use now, or is it just data
corruption? If I were to format the disks, would I be able to place the
software back onto them?
>

In many cases I've found that I can clean the magnetic media (the "cookie")
and get a successful copy from Disk Copy 4.2. Have you ever tried cleaning a
floppy disk in this way? I've used the technique for many 5.25" Apple II
disks as well.

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