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Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @05:12AM from the all-your-priceless-ascii-art dept.

First time accepted submitter Zilog writes "The end of the 3.5-inch floppy and the disappearance of associated drives showed to me the need to backup the tens of diskettes that accompanied my youth. Carefully preserved, these diskettes have proved readable for the most part — while some are approaching 20 years old. However, some diskettes have shown surface defects in areas with compressed archives (zip). Any ideas on how to recover (as much as possible) these bad sectors?"

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Re:The wisdom of using compression in archives by msauve · 2011-09-20 05:19 · Score: 5, Insightful

Now, be useful and go back 20 years to give him that advice.

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