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Are My Floppy disks rusting away ?



 
 
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Old August 15th 04, 04:42 PM
Al Dykes
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Default Are My Floppy disks rusting away ?

About the only thing I use floppies for these days is to run software
that the vendor's brain dead scripts require to run from A:.

These are freqyently boot images and I always do a full format on the
floppy to check for bad spots. Is seems to me that it's getting harder
and harder to find a floppy that's clean.

I also suspect that if the floppy drives are not used
once in awhile they might not work well.

Does anyone agree, of have any hard information ?

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