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- From: mspace@netcom.com (Brian Hall)
- Subject: Re: Cleaning moldy floppies
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.195916.29923@netcom.com>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:59:16 GMT
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- Michael.Davidson@macrocosm.omahug.org (Michael Davidson) writes:
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- >David Brightbill enquired:
- >>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.
-
- I have also had good luck with rubbing alcohol. My brother spilled pepsi
- (tm) on a disk with valuable data (tm) which sat overnight. I split the
- disk open, soaked it in alcohol, split another disk open (so I could put
- yje media in a 'clean' case) and copied the data. Saved my butt.
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