Re: Apple II Floppies

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

On Mar 24, 2:36 pm, rhohler <rick.hoh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am currently in the process of transferring my Apple II disk
> collection (around 1600) to my PC.  I've been using ADTPro which is
> one of the best programs ever.  I have Pascal, DOS, PRODOS, and CP/M
> formatted floppies.  My question is: Will ADTPro do the job of
> transferring all of these formats?  Or do I need to wait until a card
> (EDD clone) is available to "bit copy" (non DOS - pascal and CP/M
> formatted) the floppies and transfer them?  And what about 13 vs. 16
> sector disks?
>
> Additionally, I've already noticed about 15% of the 80 5.25" disks
> I've transferred appear to be bad.  I guess for 20+ year old floppies
> this is be expected.

Actually, that sounds very high for a "failure rate", assuming
reasonable storage conditions.

Are you sure they aren't just protected?

Will they boot?  (If so, they are probably protected.)

-michael