Subj : Re: Do any stores still sell floppy disks? To : All From : james@nospam.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:21 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org !feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: james@nospam.com Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Do any stores still sell floppy disks? Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2017 15:13:34 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <1j8eptyfoo7to.dlg@v.nguard.lh> NNTP-Posting-Host: TKghX/mglWkVW1qxlGBsyg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 Xref: news.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134414 On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 03:48:30 -0500, VanguardLH wrote: >There are tools to refresh magnetic media. I remember GRC Spinrite had >it. Others have a refresh, too (I think HDD Regenerator has refresh). >Haven't needed them in so long that I long ago was too old in my version >of Spinrite to qualify for an upgrade (and it costs more than many >HDDs). Going way back to the Dos days, I had a friend who I'll refer to as a "computer geek". He was good as a technician, hacker, and probably had darn near every piece of software one needed at that time. I had an old IBM PC (floppy only) computer. I took it to him, and he hooked up a hard drive to it. I still recall buying that USED hard drive at a computer store, and paying a fortune for it. It was something like 10 megs. After connecting the hard drive, he ran Spin Rite on it. I recall that took hours and I had to come back the next day to get my stuff, since I think it ran all night. The next day I got my computer and he said that my hard drive was good. I was new at all this stuff, and I was impressed by Spin Rite, so before I left, he gave me a copy of it on a floppy. Since I later archived all my floppies onto a hard drive, I still have that old Spin Rite. So, if I boot my Win98 machine to Dos, can I run that old version of Spin Rite to regenerate some floppies? Will that work? I have not used any of that old stuff in years, but I always kept all software if it was useful. Also, since I just bought 5 new blank floppies on ebay, should I run it on them? They are NEW floppies, but probably "new old stock". I had already planned to re-format them, but maybe I should do more.... I knew that floppies went bad over time, but I never knew why. Now I do. Thanks for the info. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .