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- From: Michael.Davidson@macrocosm.omahug.org (Michael Davidson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Cleaning moldy floppies
- Message-ID: <62.2b417ece@ivgate>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 15:14:01 CST
- Reply-To: michael.davidson@macrocosm.omahug.org
- Organization: The MacRocosm BBS, Lawrence, KS
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- David Brightbill enquired:
-
- >A friend had a hard disk crash and lost months worth of work. She had a
- >recent backup on floppys but it had been through the humidity hell of the deep
- >south and had developed a dusting of mold. The backups won't read and
- >inserting one in the floppy drive causes the drive to be unusable until it is
- >cleaned.
-
- >Does anyone have a clue as to how we might clean these disks up and get them
- >back ?????????
-
- I think you should get a mac head to examine your hard drive and try to
- recovver all you can with a utility program.
- Concerning the moldy floppies: use lighter fluid to clean them. I've used it
- many times to clean disk labels off. it works great; never had a problem yet.
- It doesn't hurt the media if it gets on it. And, its cheep.
-
- Hope this helps.
- Liberty,
- Michael
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