Re: Floppy disc images

[Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

Jordan,

It is important to keep the floppy drives if you still have floppy disks
around that have not been converted to images. However, new USB 3.5"
floppy drives are inexpensive (see e.g.
http://www.floppydisk.com/drives) and could be the solution you need. In
many cases, the many abandonware sites offer images of lost diskettes
that you can use.


I still have a DOS machine with a dual drive for both 3.5" and 5.25"
floppies. Some time ago, I tried to recover the manuscript of one of my
books from a CD. That failed, but I had made copies on 5.25" floppies
which were intact.


And if the information you have on your floppies is really important,
you could try a service that reads them and sends the data back to you
(e.g http://retrofloppy.com/).


Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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> However, this was a back in the day sort of thing: in order to make use of it today one would need
> the floppy disk drive and diskette media. I expect there must have been other ways to finesse this
> task.
>
>
>   Jordan