Re: Any way to clean old 3.5 disks?

["Mark Cummings" <figjams@primus.com.au>]

If they are old water spills I would not bother with them as they are most
likely rusted and not recoverable.
However I have previously used this method for a 5.25" disk that had coca
cola spilled into it.
1. cut open the wet 5.25 sleeve, being carefull not to cut the inner disk or
bend it too far.
2. remove the inner disk and carefully wash it in warm mildly soapy water
and rince.
3. dry between two tissues.
4. cut open a new unwanted/bad or blank "clean" disk case along the top
edge.
5. remove the inner disk and place in your cleaned and dried disk into the
jacket.
6. place it into a drive. It will be floppier than normal, but don't worry.
7. copy the contents of that disk onto another new disk, and use that new
disk as your original. dispose of the inner disk you rescued and cleaned.
8. keep the slit 5.25" case you made in case you need it in the future to
save wasting another blank.

You can use the same principal with a 3.5" disk, but I would leave the
sliding door and spring off on your temporary case, as it's a real nuicance
assembling these, and they are not needed for the temporary disk to work.
Also with the 3.5 case you will have to split in in half with a sharp knife
and re-tape it with thin tape to use it in the drive.

Mark


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In article <5g8rotcemmjhvqsctf7uf2nuiumckamfhd@4ax.com>, Dannon
<dannon@dannon.com> wrote:


>Hello-
>
>I have a bunch of old 3.5 Apple GS disks.  They got some minor water
>damage.
>
>Recently, I tried to read them in my GS 3.5 drive but they won't boot.
>
>Any way to recover these?  Any way to clean them?
>
>Thanks,
>Dannon
>
>