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I have a note with this command written down īut it seems to be reading one sector at a time The command setfdprm /dev/fd0 sect=9 dd ssize=512 cyl=80 That trying to read them leads to a lot of errors-this was the caseįor at least one weird 1.0 MB disk I found. Some disks may have different low-level formatting, such Most of the disks had the standard 1.44 MB formatting and just worked. process-floppy.sh DISKNAME to start the process Here are the scripts, some tweaking may be necessary: (I had to do this when I found some additional disks later.)įor each disk, I wanted a sector-level raw image, plus an archive fileĪnd a graphical scan of the front and back of the disk. You can easily buy a USB-connected floppy drive for less than $20. If you don't have a PC with a floppy drive, It happened that my folks still had an old PC with a 3.5″ disk drive.Īnd wrote some scripts to help automate the process. I managed to archive over 85% of the 3.5″ disks and over 90%Īnd most of the remainder were at least partially readable, I decided to try and read the data off them before the old Notes about recovering data from 30-year-old 3.5″ and 5.25″ floppy disks.Īt my parents' place I found a stash of a couple hundredįloppy disks, some dating back to my early childhood. Floppy disk recovery Floppy disk recovery
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