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Re: 5.25 Inch Disk Data Recovery

Subject: Re: 5.25 Inch Disk Data Recovery
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:09:01 -0400
Well, 5.25" floppy disks were used by Atari computer, Commodore computers, Apple, and a variety of other systems besides IBM/MS-DOS compliant systems. Some of the disk drives that accessed these floppies were written in strange formats, relative to stock MS-Dos. I noticed you said "Apple?" in your request. Have you tried to find an Apple system on which to view these? Another possibility is locating a tool that can actually read the varied formats of these floppies. You might try Anadisk. I used to be able to read several formats on my old Commodore computer, and I know that some Apple utilities could read multiple formats as well.

You also raise a valid point about data retention on the diskettes as well, since they do deteriorate over time, and you may not have any recognizable data remaining either.

Dave
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