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What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/floppy-disk-data-preservation-archives
14•pseudolus•2d ago

Comments

kev009•1h ago
The internally linked article is much better than this https://www.digipres.org/the-floppy-guide/
walrus01•36m ago
The part about head cleaning says "high purity" isopropyl alcohol and then says 70-99%. There's little reason to buy anything other than 99%. Additionally some of the same cleaning swabs and wipes sold for fiber optic patch cable and bulkhead connector cleaning are well suited for this.

These are low cost generic/bulk items you can buy from chinese sellers via Amazon or other sources. If it's good enough to clean 9/125 singlemode fiber it should be good enough for floppy drive heads. Ignore the reel-type cleaners that look like a mini betamax tape, and the push click cleaners, which can only be used on real fiber stuff. Go for the swabs and kimtech wipes.

visual examples of what the products look like:

https://focenter.com/products/fiber-optic-cleaning/productio...

https://www.occfiber.com/product/kimtech-lint-free-wipes/

londons_explore•55m ago
I would like to see approaches to recovering data from fragile disks by placing the inner disk on a flat surface and using some kind of imaging technology to measure the magnetic fields - perhaps an electron microscope could do the job at low enough field strengths?

Using this I imagine it might be possible to not only read the disk data, but perhaps even previous versions of data that has been overwritten.

userbinator•44m ago
Magnetic field cameras exist:

https://matesy.de/en/products/cmos-magview

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Visualization_of_magnetic...

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264•watermelon0•15h ago•431 comments

What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/floppy-disk-data-preservation-archives
15•pseudolus•2d ago•4 comments

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