Re: Any way to salvage disks that can't write?

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

I carefully removed the magnetic media from the casing and cleaned it with a glass of water that had two drops of soap in it using a Q-Tip.  Same disk that would not record now has Archon II on it and booted like a champ.  No write errors.  No read errors.  I guess it was a thin layer of oxidation and/or dust to blame.  I'll have to find a way of doing this without slicing open disks but so far so good!  Your mileage may and most likely will vary.

-B

On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 9:32:45 AM UTC-5, BLuRry wrote:
> This is a silly question I never would have asked ten years ago, but now that supply is limited I wonder is there a way to salvage disks (not their data per se) that are unable to write successfully?  I still have quite a few disks with no defects so I'm not necessarily stuck on this.  But I am curious just for posterity's sake if anyone has ever made unusable disks usable again (even for just temporary purposes)
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