Argh, not ScanDisk (which I loved) I was thinking of SpinWrite.

GRC - Gibson research is still alive and well

 

I don't know what you are talking about and I never ruined a disk with that program, whatever it was called.

try reading what I said then!

 

GRC - Gibson research is still alive and well

The one I got might be v6 - it crashes somewhere around 1Tb.

 

try reading what I said then!

No.

 

Would any of you consider reading a set that I have and putting it on thumb drive?

 

Would any of you consider reading a set that I have and putting it on thumb drive?

Please start your own hread for that request.


And the service is likely available just search fo it.

 

It is not strictly relevant to the purpose of the thread, but I want to let you know.... As a result of getting me thinking about this general topic, I went back and found a couple of boxes of C64 stuff that was, at least, 30-35 years old. From time to time, I read about folks wondering how long a 5.25 floppy would last. I have data now to suggest that the answer is more than 30-35 years.

I had to do some cleaning on the drive (still have not found my alignment diskette), and I am now able to read plenty of commercially written diskettes of the same age. I can also format and read and write diskettes.