Rotten floppies, hard on the drive?

DDNI · 06 May 2006, 21:25

Hi all, like many of you I have a mountain of 15 year + old floppies.
I recently decided to check them over for rot. As expected many many of them had errors. What concerns me most though is the noises my floppy drive makes whilst reading them. Is it possible for these old floppies to kill my drive?

NOB · 06 May 2006, 21:39

The dirt will pollute the head.And maybe all following disks
can´t be read.Until the head is cleaned.

DDNI · 06 May 2006, 21:52

Ok cleaned heads with alcohol impregnated floppy cleaning disk. Is that me safe then?

adgloride · 07 May 2006, 00:03

I've found a lot of my old discs don't work on the Amiga, even if the heads are cleaned on the drive. What I've done is get a Amiga 1200 and use WHDLOAD to put all the games on the harddrive.

NOB · 07 May 2006, 10:47

Rotten floppies, hard on the heads.

Polluted heads can destroy disks.

The heads possibly (in extreme cases) mills rills into the disk-surface.
So a clean head is essential.

Disk destroyed by polluted heads.

(You can see the track´s

)

cosmicfrog · 08 May 2006, 02:13

ouch

Like anything mechanical prone to wear and tear.

Moral Back up & back up and backup again

06 May 2006, 21:25	#1
DDNI Targ Explorer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 5,431	Rotten floppies, hard on the drive? Hi all, like many of you I have a mountain of 15 year + old floppies. I recently decided to check them over for rot. As expected many many of them had errors. What concerns me most though is the noises my floppy drive makes whilst reading them. Is it possible for these old floppies to kill my drive?

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06 May 2006, 21:39	#2
NOB Zone Friend Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Germany Age: 52 Posts: 424	The dirt will pollute the head.And maybe all following disks can´t be read.Until the head is cleaned.

06 May 2006, 21:52	#3
DDNI Targ Explorer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 5,431	Ok cleaned heads with alcohol impregnated floppy cleaning disk. Is that me safe then?

07 May 2006, 00:03	#4
adgloride Amiga Mod Chipper Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: UK Age: 51 Posts: 229	I've found a lot of my old discs don't work on the Amiga, even if the heads are cleaned on the drive. What I've done is get a Amiga 1200 and use WHDLOAD to put all the games on the harddrive.

07 May 2006, 10:47	#5
NOB Zone Friend Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Germany Age: 52 Posts: 424	Rotten floppies, hard on the heads. Polluted heads can destroy disks. The heads possibly (in extreme cases) mills rills into the disk-surface. So a clean head is essential. Disk destroyed by polluted heads. (You can see the track´s )

08 May 2006, 02:13	#6
cosmicfrog The 1 who ribbits Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: leek, Staffs, UK Age: 56 Posts: 3,557	ouch Like anything mechanical prone to wear and tear. Moral Back up & back up and backup again

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