[geeks] ug ... Help!

[Andrew Weiss]

I recommend using the DOS tool hd-copy to pull images of them and then 
work with the images.  (I don't trust floppy media, especially old 
stuff) I can send you hd-copy if you'd like. (it's card-ware.... send a 
postcard...etc. but I'm sure the guy no longer lives at the address :-))

On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 01:53 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On August 1, Michael A. Turner wrote:
>> 	Ok gang I need some advice on how to procede here. Yesterday the DBA
>> came into my office with a set of disks given to him by the big cheese 
>> to
>> get the data off of. It is described as very important data. 
>> Unfortunatly it
>> is located on two 5 1/4 disks. now thinking to myself , how important 
>> can
>> this data be if it is still stored on 5 1/4 disks (meaning no one has 
>> needed
>> it in years), I take the disks and go scrounge a working 5 1/4 disk 
>> drive.
>
>   One really quick word of advice...if they're really old, check to see
> if they're 360K disks.  If they are, AND if you have trouble reading
> them in a 1.2MB drive, try them again in a 360K drive.  The 1.2MB
> high-density drives use narrower track width; this frequently caused
> problems when reading 360K floppies.
>
>        -Dave
>
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-Andrew
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