I've asked this question before, but never received a satisfactory answer. Please bear in mind I live in the tropics, and cannot keep my diskette collections under any kind of standard conditions. Almost invariably, it seems, diskettes more than a year old are unreadable. Is there anything I can do to save them? What physically is happening to the media that makes it (apparently) impossible for the fdd to read the disks? Thanks for any help. Alan -- [log in to unmask] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com