On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Josh Paetzel wrote: > The chances that the floppies themselves are actually any good are > fairly low. Back in the mid 90's in the midst of a move I checked all > the 5.25" floppies I had, as at that point it had been years since I > used them, and the vast majority of them had errors. My guess is that > unless these were very recently written there's probably no usable data > left on them. I wasn't the original poster on this one, but... I'm surprised to hear that these disks are expected to fail at this point. I guess it has been 20 years since I looked at some of my old disks but I was thinking I could copy some of the files off of them, copy them to my HDD and toss the disks in the trash. They really don't last this long if kept in a cool dry place, in their sleeve in one of those old disk cases? I thought they would last longer. I have watched some VHS tapes made 20 years ago and they still work fine -- not digital, but they are magnetic media. Mike