Testing 100 Broken Floppy Disks - Are They Really Damaged?

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@MichaelMJD 3 года назад

Since many have requested it, here's an archive of that Chuck E. Cheese Floppy! archive.org/details/cec_floppy

@neonsparklestarlightgamer2153 3 года назад

Why Chuck E Cheese!Thats From Dora Birthday!

@neonsparklestarlightgamer2153 3 года назад

Im Trying Insert Broken Floppy Disk. It Didnt Work Because Its Broken.

@olbluelips 3 года назад

Hmmm maybe I'll try and write a script that can read these .cec files... maybe not, but I'll look into it :)

@fart1234. 3 года назад

I downloaded it

@fart1234. 3 года назад

@@neonsparklestarlightgamer2153 yeah in msdos limbo x86

@HrutkayMods 3 года назад

Yes the Chuck E. Cheese Floppies are designed to run the animatronics and lights and from what I can tell they are still using them for their older systems... some of the older systems still run windows 98 apparently. By the way sometimes you can save a disk if you format them... The stack that you had read the directory might be salvageable

@neonsparklestarlightgamer2153 3 года назад

@@damian9303 Use Floppy Disk Console. If You in Boris OS and CrappyOperatingSystem. Floppy Disk Console is can see Console of Setup.

@pocketlightt 3 года назад

@@neonsparklestarlightgamer2153 wtf does that even mean

@friendlytexangamer9582 3 года назад

@@pocketlightt I have no idea.

@pocketlightt 3 года назад

@@friendlytexangamer9582 i actually think i know now they are talking about fake os's in goanimate lmao

@friendlytexangamer9582 3 года назад

@@pocketlightt oh yeah lol

@mjdxp5688 3 года назад

This is kinda neat, just the file names alone kind of tell a story. especially binikis3.jpg

@SimbianGaming 3 года назад

But most inportantly where is bikinis1 and 2

@markusTegelane 3 года назад

@@SimbianGaming and perhaps 4, 5...

@isabelguillen4015 3 года назад

bikini

@ExperiencersInternational 3 года назад

@@SimbianGaming we simply must know. Its probably on another floppy disk

@ExperiencersInternational 3 года назад

Yes I definitely think so. It's such a shame Michael couldn't read the files.

@BAIGAMING 3 года назад

24:58 Yep! We're laughing now, but there's a lot of companies using old machines and have no choice but to use floppy disks. I'm a chemical engineering, and I've seen laboratories doing work with floppies when analyzing patients' samples because no manager wants to be the one who spends money on a new machine or instrument during their term, it's a game of hot potato. The floppies at those companies are treated like gold, and someone was actually fired because they flicked the back of it or maybe touched the sensitive part of it too much, deleting the data, and the company actually tracked someone down in Europe who made the machine in the 90's, and paid him ~30k as well as food and board to give us a new floppy and "train" us on the machine again, and although that seems exorbitant, that's what they'd rather do than buy a newer version of the machine that would cost 100k+. I'm not joking, I've seen companies put floppy disks in *vaults* because they don't know that they can transfer the files and order floppy disks.

@Ni5ei 3 года назад

I can transfer everything to a USB drive and sell them a floppy emulator for only $20,000 ;)

@Zylops 3 года назад

Yea my dad has a whole bunch of them

@vendybirdsvadl7472 3 года назад

Hospital in my town got an USB floppy disk drive still plugged in their computer. It appears they were using these to transfer Files over The post office but i think their computers cloud already connect to internet back in 2000s. So yea you Are right this

@SiegmundFretzgau 3 года назад

Lab I worked at had a calibration setup for measuring tools that ran off a DOS PC. You could only get the calibration results on a floppy disk. All custom in house developed 25 years ago, not sure how expensive it would be to replace.

@amirpourghoureiyan1637 3 года назад

Gotek drives would get rid of this issue immediately

@dankpenguin4205 3 года назад

From what I found on the Chuck E Cheese wiki: "To run a new show, the location is sent a software upgrade floppy disk along with the DVD, which includes the programming."

@doriphor 3 года назад

A DVD and a floppy? Wow!

@1Soniccool 3 года назад

Chuck E Cheese still uses floppy Disks, also there is the Show Biz Pizza logo on the floppy disk instead of the current logo they have been using.

@tylern6420 2 года назад

Maybe Chuck E Cheese really is just freddy fazbears irl

@JeffreyPiatt 2 года назад

@@1Soniccool that's the Pizza Time Theater logo designed by Nolan Bushnell there Founder. It's a Studio C disk.

@Sub2RazE 2 года назад

No wonder, the animatroics and software is from the 80s.

@OVERKILL_PINBALL 3 года назад

I used to love it when AOL sent me a new free floppy disk in the mail! A little tape over the notch, a quick format and I never had to buy floppies again! Well... until they started sending CDROMs... Doh!

@Xnoob545 2 года назад

Do you still have the floppies

@OVERKILL_PINBALL 2 года назад

@@Xnoob545 I would have to dig deep in the basement archives but I know I still have some floppies somewhere :)

@justsomeguy9700 Год назад

Noice

@American-slayer Месяц назад

How many disks didn't do you have (Floppys and CDs)

@Jude_5555 3 года назад

Just imagine there's some guy out there that makes the Chuck e Cheese programs but he is completely unaware floppy discs are no longer mainstream.

@Locutus 3 года назад

I can't imagine that.

@firstnamelastname4224 3 года назад

"Dude, what's that reflective little circle u got there? A CD? That sounds **tubular** broo"

@markharrisllb 2 года назад

This reminded me of my Uni days, when people kept all their work on one disk just for it to fail at that crucial time before handing it in. It amazed me how many people didn’t back up their work. I think 'My floppy is corrupted' was the Uni version of 'The dog ate my homework".

@flarespire359 3 года назад

From what I've experienced with recently getting a 1.44 MB Floppy Drive for my 98 machine and testing floppies, the ones that were showing a DIR listing but not copying any data probably only have their FAT intact, in 99% of cases, you can format them with windows and they will work fine for quite a while, so, you just got 20+ useable disks from a batch of 100, not bad!

@OrangeShellGaming 3 года назад

Not just the FAT; the root directory has to also be intact for it to actually list the files.

@flarespire359 3 года назад

@@OrangeShellGaming still, you get my point xD

@gregdaweson4657 2 года назад

@@OrangeShellGaming Cant you low level format them though?

@kiningroseburg9288 3 года назад

Now run Norton Disk doctor on the disks with "SECTOR NOT FOUND" or "DATA ERROR"

@joelavcoco 3 года назад

But the Norton disk was bad! (I know, he probably already has it on the Win98 PC.)

@spiderobert 3 года назад

24:33 I would not be surprised if they still use floppies, the animatronics were built a long time ago and I'm sure it would cost more to upgrade all of them than it is to just make new floppies. I've seen hobbyists get Rockafire Explosion sets working, and those did run on floppies.

@northstardivine 3 года назад

Keep doing what you do man, you're one of the best retro tech focused youtubers on here. You're bound to reach mainstream success in the tech community someday.

@MichaelMJD 3 года назад

I really appreciate that! Thanks so much : )

@GBlastMan 3 года назад

The "Relentless" floppy disk its from the game by Adeline Software Relentless: Little Big Adventure (hence why the file is named LBA) it must be the third disk on the installation of the game, not that this changes things because its a pirated copy and you dont have the other disks in order for that to be of any use.

@billob4285 3 года назад

Several comments have said "try and reformat", I've got one better. Try running a disk repair software just to see if you can recover the disks. Most times if they can't be recovered then they can't be reformatted. There are still plenty of recovery programs available, some run in DOS some in Windows. As to their effectiveness that remains to be seen.

@osmankovan7604 3 года назад

Who wants RAW FOOTAGE of this video :) Almost 2 hours and 30 minutes :D

@ancori 3 года назад

@xPentu 3 года назад

@16Marguie 3 года назад

Me too 26 minutes on youtube and almost 2 hours and 30 minutes of raw footage

@CarlosPerezChavez 3 года назад

Everybody and welcome

@waldevv 3 года назад

It would be like LGR's dot matrix hotdog banner all over again

@cakedon 3 года назад

YES! Our speculations were correct. You did this :)

@PlanetComputer 3 года назад

@doctorsmiles2209 3 года назад

@@PlanetComputer ok

@FlineGuy 3 года назад

@Doctor Smiles ok

@cakedon 3 года назад

@jakester5016 3 года назад

@WhoIsJohnCleland 3 года назад

This video is the beginning of a creepypasta.

@retrogamer64x 3 года назад

Alternate title : Viewers annoy Michael with 100 Broken Floppy Disks... Sorry for bad english, i am a german guy

@HeenaPatel253 3 года назад

RetroGamer_64 You wrote everything the correct way good job!

@iosafnc 3 года назад

your english is perfect

@onurcanerdogan 3 года назад

Don't underestimate yourself bud. You did nothing wrong.

@linuxameteur 3 года назад

You honestly have better grammar than most people on this site

@retrogamer64x 3 года назад

@@linuxameteur Thank you very much!

@osmankovan7604 3 года назад

I said NIGHTMARE to "Installing Office 97 from 46 disks" but this is the REAL NIGHTMARE.

@BilisNegra 3 года назад

Not really. This is just random disks with no relation to each other (plus you know they're mostly not going to work). Installing a software suite comprising dozens of disk where one bad disk, even just a partially damaged disk, will ruin a maybe hours-long process, so it remains not exactly a pleasant experience IMO.

@nagyszabolcs9451 3 года назад

Honestly I kinda want a "Data error reading drive A" shirt 😂 (I have a design idea on my mind might do it later 👀)

@dotmatrixmoe 3 года назад

That's cool, man! Hope this gets seen.

@roybixby6135 3 года назад

I had that shirt many years ago...

@Zylops 3 года назад

we NEED a subredit mate!

@osmankovan7604 3 года назад

Also may be these diskettes can be reused with full format (this will be deactivate the corrupt sectors), but i don't know if this is gonna work or not.

@LovelyAlanna 3 года назад

I formatted 10 diskettes I bought online, 7 said they were not able to work, but after formatting them all came back to life, not with the full capacity but they work

@Mr_Meowingtons 3 года назад

all been though a disk demagnetizer to wipe them just in case there is personal info on them. a lot of the time they will format fine with a few bad sectors

@HelmutVonZeche 3 года назад

@@LovelyAlanna I also ordered 50 floppys, but I could not format them, it said that they were write protected even though they were not, I used a program for repairing bad sectors but only a handful of them started working, but I can't get anything on them because it still says it is write protected.

@numbdropbc 3 года назад

I can feel the enthusiasm you had the whole video. You make great content, keep it up!

@lambda2657 3 года назад

Wow, love to see your enthusiasm in this one, also the intro was pretty fresh for this channel!

@MichaelMJD 3 года назад

Thank you!

@jargon343 3 года назад

Cool video Michael! I love watching floppy discs go in and out it gives me a sense of nostalgia! Thank you!

@TheFakeVIP 3 года назад

The things you put yourself through for our entertainment lol.

@PlanetComputer 3 года назад

@KatJustice97 Год назад

This is one of the (if not THE) first videos I watched on this channel. Been subscribed ever since. Keep doing what you do, Mr. MJD

@bloxyman22 3 года назад

I came across many floppes that were thrown away that were trash and refused to even complete a format in dos/windows. I had a trick to ressurect these floppies though and that was using XCopy on an amiga 500. It would validate each sector as it was written and whenever it would fail you could press "R" to retry. What I did was tape the R button down and that did the trick.. Most floppies started working again after a certain amount of retries and after that they would often become reliable again and even formated fine in dos.

@justsomeguy9700 Год назад

Intresting

@laharl2k 3 года назад

just started watching the video but a method i have which sometimes works for when it wont format or has bad sectors is to low level erase them with a big neodymium magnet from a hdd. A few times it worked and after passing the magnet in circles over the diskette and reformatting they worked again and some time it also fixed some bad sectors.

@HudsonGTV 2 года назад

Pretty awesome how the most interesting floppy disk in that bunch is the one that survived.

@bryede 3 года назад

It seems obvious that we pushed floppy densities a little too far. In my experience most lower density disks are fine unless the oxide layer starts falling off.

@ahmetdenizsezgin 3 года назад

Alternative title: youtuber finds out the secret of a company because of his viewers spams

@someguy872 3 года назад

Great one, MJD! are your gonna format them or throw them away? how about a classic 386/486 pc for older style software?

@adid.5585 2 года назад

They might not be working, but they sure are a lot of fun to collect! These have personality just like the cassette tapes do, with all those colors and styles. I doubt CDs come even close to this level, and this is also considered an obsolete medium today.

@blainepalmerza 3 года назад

Awesome video, Michael!

@regele4063 3 года назад

bikinis3.jpg *you already know what it is* 😏

@tomyyoung2624 3 года назад

1 copy file

@firstnamelastname4224 3 года назад

@@nacroni A girl IN 3 bikinis

@wisteela 3 года назад

Well at least we know they are very thorough when it comes to testing disks. Yes, I really do think that was for controlling the animatronic shows.

@miraim6476 3 года назад

I wonder, as I had similar issue between 2 drives (created a disk with a usb disk drive and try to use it on an old computer which results in read errors like these) if the drive is not misaligned for those disks?

@untrustedinstaller 3 года назад

One of the few times i heard excitement in MJD's voice

@stonent 3 года назад

I'd bet they had some basic DOS based system that controlled the animatronics or video screens so the floppy was the way to keep them updated. Where I worked they had some kind of metal working machine that has a modern PC connected to it, but inside of it, it has a paper tape reader. Apparently long ago it was upgraded so a rs232 port pushed data into the paper tape reader board, so that's why it was perfectly happy connected to a Windows 10 PC with some special software. But it also had some kind of computer looking thing inside of it that was unplugged that looked like it could have been a mid 80s rack mount PC. So it may have "just worked" with the old system and they didn't want to re-do it.

@PlanetComputer 3 года назад

@Wish13 Год назад

I would love if you uploaded all of the (not actually broken) floppy disks!

@jempio 3 года назад

Loved the suspense of this video!

@PFMediaServices Год назад

That intro is a thing of beauty. Had to watch it 3 times for full appreciation of hearing Michael sounding like he's not chill and happy.... 😂🍍

@LuneLovehearn 3 года назад

Hey Michael, I'm amazed that you got 1 floppy disk to work. Now you could clone that whole floppy disk to another drive and upload it so one of your viewers can analyze it. Also what about trying to low level format the 100 floppy disks to see if you can resurrect it back to life?

@rustybobdotca 3 года назад

For some reason I just watched a guy try to read floppies for 26 minutes. I regret nothing.

@DankRedditMemes 3 года назад

Please say that Chuck E Cheese diskette is imaged. Also, would the other readable floppies be usable if you formatted them?

@tomyyoung2624 3 года назад

Yes a woks!

@umerfaisal9171 3 года назад

Your channel is very underrated...... You deserve more subscribers as your videos are really interesting

@maikelvangorkom 3 года назад

Did you test a couple of disk using vgacopy? A great tool to copy a disk an check the integrity of the disk. The defective sectors are displayed. Helped a lot of students back in the day!

@kintenxp8582 3 года назад

I love this content Michael! Keep it up. Could you do a video of Microsoft 3D Movie Maker?

@finsterhund 3 года назад

oh my god I want the 3DS4/3D studio 4 disk so much. A working cracked copy of this specific software is on my list of things I want to get my hands on. Shame it's corrupted.

@beardyface8492 3 года назад

I was quite successful in the past recovering disks with these sorts of errors by a variant on the much suggested method of reformatting them, only with a twist. I used to first reformat using the switches for an unconditional format to 720k & then follow by formatting to the full capacity again. Other approaches that sometimes work: scandisk (surface scan, only works occasionally) running spinrite on them (extremely slow) writing a (blank will do) disk image to them

@JTRAIN Год назад

Cool video Michael. I just love watching your videos, and they are awesome. Can you make a Windows 2000 Development video.

@videos4life 3 года назад

so basically he confirmed that part 3 to this series will be this week. lol still loving the fails unedited out

@jayextarys8616 3 года назад

I always loved the diskette seeking noise. I miss the ol days

@brokenelectronics3665 3 года назад

It will be cool to see what happens with that one diskette. I wonder, if you were to erase the other disks that read but would not copy, would they be functional as blank disks?

@d0g3br34d 2 года назад

imagine he just started an animatronic show in some random chuck e cheese somewhere

@robertfoster6070 3 года назад

I remember many years ago that when sensitive FDs were disposed of, I had to physically dismantle them and shred the contents.

@plechaim 3 года назад

I got floppies and cassettes that have outlived CDS, its how well you look after them, store them and use them.. still got hundreds of working disks

@AnesuC 3 года назад

Doesn't Windows support the feature of when you start typing something more specifically the file names and pressing the tab key to autocomplete the rest?

@killistan 2 года назад

Unfortunately, the time when I had floppies and the time since I learned how to use ddrescue never overlapped. I've always been curious if I could have gotten anything off with that tool, though.

@TomokoAbe_ 3 года назад

I have old 5-1/4" floppies...some no longer work, but other still DO and I still have a very usable DOS computer...from the 80's. The 80's keyboard I still use on my Windows 10 computer with a few adapters. I wish I could find an adapter which I could use an old 5-1/4" floppy drive. It's a pain to switch computers like that

@fabiofusco7349 3 года назад

You can try formatting them, if the formatting completes you will probably have a good part of them working again, and you can also see how much of them is damaged. I did this just today with about 50 floppies that i could not access and 8 of them were 100% perfect after formatting, 10 were completely broken and the rest working with between 3 and 50 KB of damaged sectors

@jakedeangaming1072 6 месяцев назад

Fun fact: chuck e cheese's used floppy discs the entire time they used animatronics r.i.p the animatronics

@MaskedGEEK 3 года назад

Michael: _ * Tries to copy a potentially naughty picture * _ PC: _ * Throws up error and doesn’t * _ Michael: “Well that’s unfortunate.” Now we know what’s on your mind. Lol 😜

@H.G.Halberd 3 года назад

"im doing this one handed"

@jenselenaromero9871 3 года назад

time stamp

@MaskedGEEK 3 года назад

@@jenselenaromero9871 I guess someone doesn't want to watch Michael's video. But if you really must know, it's from 8:27.

@thescreemregular5168 3 года назад

Whom ever disliked this video is one of the broken floppys

@Veticia 2 года назад

What I'm doing with my life. I'm watching someone try a pile of dead floppies for half an hour.

@KingDerp93 3 года назад

Try calling the warranty number and get the rest of the set?

@HeenaPatel253 3 года назад

Timothy Seders 😂😂😂😂😂

@Zombiekiller-bc7ud 3 года назад

Just for shits and giggles I called both numbers. The warranty number actually worked but I got put through to a voice mail system since I called at night but the technical support number is no longer in service. Maybe try calling them on a work day.

@macinman 3 года назад

Hey Michael, just out of curiosity, since none of the data is worth much today. Have you considered seeing if you could reformat any of the disks? sometimes a reformat will repair any damage if it's a file system corruption. If it's physical damage, or simply worn out material, that will probably be non reparable. It's worth a shot though.

@_SYDGAMING_ 3 года назад

Man seeing a floppy disk takes me back to the good old days. Though if you think of it floppy disks are just humongus sdhc cards

@jmac79ers 3 года назад

I'm going through a similar process, but with amiga disks. Probably 300 or more. I've gotten most working by simply cleaning them with 70% iso prop and cotton swabs. And about 1000 head cleanings

@brittoschristozachariah7280 2 года назад

Whats impossible is getting like from MJD

@user-iq6en8ed7q 8 месяцев назад

some one beat me to it `^` but yes, the "show 3" is for the animaltronics, it prolly contains the information for what each character will do as in movements and songs and such, like timing info, and, some for the lights or stage effects. pretty amazing u have that, id archive it if u haven't yet

@andrewdupuis1151 3 года назад

have you tried to format them ? it happen to me my disk stop working i reformat it then it worked

@HeenaPatel253 3 года назад

Great video also do you still have that wireless card on the windows 98 pc? Lol

@MichaelMJD 3 года назад

Yeah its still installed in it!

@user-qq1kj3dk5b 3 года назад

Haha the intro😂😂😂lol

@PlanetComputer 3 года назад

@tomyyoung2624 3 года назад

@@PlanetComputer Answer YES!

@rannugblah4251 2 года назад

Quick question; Have you cleaned the read head on your drive and how about trying something like symantec disk doctor on some of these?

@linglin92 3 года назад

it's interesting to see the plug & play manager driver disk for windows 3.1 because windows 95 was the first time support plug & play and I have found one listing disk on ebay but unfortunately it ended on Sep 04

@MidwayMaiTais 3 года назад

I'm assuming the .cec stands for Chuck E Cheese. Also, It's probably animatronic updates for the show. The animatronics were created back in the late 80's early 90's for Show Biz Pizza (Rock A Fire Explosion). CEC gained the shows when they merged with Showbiz Pizza. I'm assuming they never upgraded the computer system and are using period appropriate computers to run it, therefore floppys make sense.

@TimeWisely Год назад

Yes those are likely for the animatronics, Remember, the animatronics are over 30 years old, so it wouldn't be a surprise if they never updated it.

@winelectronic101 3 года назад

Have you considered doing a history video on Microsoft Sam, the text-to-speech voice that is used as a meme by today's standards?

@Ben-yl7vx 3 года назад

Everyone gansta until the emergency disk is having an emergency

@roybixby6135 3 года назад

3½" and 3" floppies were never very reliable. Back in the day I copied each disk onto itself just to retain the contents. A recent test most of my 3½" floppies found most failed. But surprisingly nearly all of my 5¼" and 8" floppies are still working. I'm lucky because I backed up images of my most important floppies to CD-ROM...

@Damaniel3 3 года назад

The earlier 3.5" floppies were OK, but the quality got really bad in the 90s as they started to become obsolete - many disks from the last 5-8 years of mainstream production have crazy failure rates.

@roybixby6135 3 года назад

Also the quality of the drive will effect whether it reads a disk or not...

@robotakrzysztofa7704 3 года назад

I waited for this moment

@linuxameteur 3 года назад

That intro is GOLD

@GrannyBender 3 года назад

The song: Don't copy that floppy Michael: Alright folks, let's try to copy 100 random floppies!

@RealBega 3 года назад

This was a nice birthday present!(didnt see video until today, yesterday was my birthday)

@xxElyonxx 3 года назад

i would die for that cec disk.... it's so wild seeing the original logo from 1977 on a floppy disk from 2017

@Blade2086 3 года назад

You should try to repair some of these with Norton Disk Doctor and see if the issue is fixed. Could be table allocation issue or something that Norton can fix.... :-) Try it, you may be surprised. Also try “safe formatting” under Norton the ones that don’t read at all or some of the readable but not copy capable disks.

@cobrag0318 2 года назад

Yes, that is a show update disk. Cyberstar is the show controller. We had one from when our location was a ShowBiz to run our 3-stage show. It took a video source, with 1 audio channel for the audio that went out to the speakers, the other channel was encoded data that the cyberstar show controller decoded and used to activate the motions in synch with the on screen video and audio. Our shows, and likely theirs too came on DVD, but ours originally came on reel to reel as the video source. Ours didn't need floppies, because it was a more primitive show. That studio C show only had 1 animatronic figure, Chuck E. himself. As opposed to our 4 or 5 main characters + a few background. There were actual 2 versions of studio-c, one with 16 movements, and one with 32. The 32 moment one looks pretty slick, even if it only had Chuck E. himself with everything else on video screens. But I'm betting it has an actual computer controlling it and that disk, along with an accompanying DVD are apart of the update package they issue every time the put out a new show every few months. Sadly I hear they're removing all of their animatronic stage shows since it's not the techical marvel to the kids anymore, and expensive to maintain. But if you want to see what our 3 stage show looked like under Showbiz, look up Rock-a-fire Explosion on here. Then when it becake Chuck E. Cheese, you can look up the Chuck E. Cheese 3 stage show. I also have seen where someone uploaded an instructional video for those showbiz locations becoming Chuck E. Cheese on how to change to the new show, called Concept Unification. And there's another show called C-stage that has all the members, but looks kinda like a watered down 3-stage show. And like I said, you can look up the Studio-C show to see what this disk would've been a part of running.

@metaleggman18 3 года назад

I haven't used floppies since the early 2000s. Does the inability to read a floppy sector indicate a physically damaged sector like a hdd? Or is it salvageable by writing over the unreadable sector?

@7uptendo Год назад

I think why some of the Floppy Disk were working was probably because of miss judgment or information. Sometimes it can be the drive itself and people think that the floppy disk was dirty but it was their drive instead

@matthewday7565 3 года назад

Will they reformat? - and have you tried NFORMAT or FDFORMAT sector skewed, typically use 1 or 0 on head and 3 on track - makes VERY fast floppies

@singletona082 3 года назад

Why do I find this relaxing....?

@Mike90317 3 года назад

THAT cold open! 🤣🤣🤣

@arbiteras 2 года назад

Thanks to some software i ran on XP and 98 i was able to recover dozens of diskettes that could not be formatted (at first). Some recovered to 100% capacity without errors. The majority that recovered were imation\3m disks.

@elephystry Год назад

what was the software

@LuneLovehearn 3 года назад

I also wondered if a Linux system like Manjaro could handle those floppy disks... It would be interesting to see how it ends

@tomyyoung2624 3 года назад

cool floppy disks!

@spy.re-drobe20 3 года назад

it is so fantastic, although you may need to use a non-smudge cleaning solution if your going to get the other files. up to you if investigating it is worth the time.

@chase6673 3 года назад

He has so much dedication.

@Eliapolar 2 месяца назад

hey Michael i work at chuck e cheese and we still use floppy disks but you also need a dvd with the programming

@Henk717 3 года назад

Michael is there a way to revive broken floppy's? My dad has Windows 3.1 floppy's i would like to revive, i got working images of them, but when i try writing them i get bad sectors. Despite multiple low level formats i can't get them revived. The surface looks healthy but i think they lost their magnetism. Can something be done?