Re: Softdisk

[kauai96765@yahoo.com (The Apple Man)]

Bruce.Baker@juge.com (Bruce Baker) wrote in message news:<075_200209021357@juge.com>...
> I've been trying to convert my 5.25" softdisk disks to 3.5" disks.  I hope this
> makes them last longer.  It is slow, I need a book to read while copying, and
> unfortunately some of my disks no longer works.  I have #100 thru 132 in 5.25"
> when I converted to 3.5" originally.  
> 
> I've been able to convert over half of them.  The rest don't seem to work.  I'm
> hoping if I change to a different drive maybe the drive will read them better.
> 
> I've gotten 100 thru 114 and 127 thru 132 done.  They work faster.  This is
> pretty good.  I'm going to keep working on the middle disks.  Some don't work
> because I spilled candle wax on them.  They may not be salvageable.
> 
> 
> Bruce Baker


You should be converting them to disk images.  Disks can be
reconstituted any time from disk images.  (Plus they can be used with
emulators in image form)