[OT] Floppy problem

[Richard Meyeroff]

Yes even in this day and age we still have to worry about floppies. Well I do.

My wife has about 200 floppies that she has used for backup of her 
documents, they range from disks formatted on a Mac Plus, Mac II, 
650, 8600.  I now have to read those disks and get them to my hard 
drive and burn a CD or DVD.  The Programs that the documents are 
written in range from MacWrite (various versions), WordPerfect, and 
various version of MS Word.

I have no trouble reading those that are formatted 1.44 as i have a 
VST USB Floppy Drive

I have even tried to use the floppy drive in the 8600 that I gave to 
my nephew.  But, many disks are coming up unreadable please 
initialize of t"there is a problem with the disk please check".  Many 
of those come up with part of the disk used but no documents or I 
cannot copy the documents to the hard drive. Also at times when I get 
a string of disks that ask to be initialized I insert a disk that has 
been read successfully and often I am then asked to initialize the 
disk.

help  Help Help

Can a floppy drive be out of register?  If so how can I tell and/or correct?
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Have a Happy and Enjoy

Richard E. Meyeroff
Meyeroff Computer Consultants
718-265-3781
FAX 718-266-6671
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