The trusty floppy is better than its ever been, so today I assume the most
common issue with diskette failures is head mal-alignment.  Your diskettes
failing on all pc's or just yours?  I notice my diskettes (I have some going
back 9 years) get picky after a while, I attribute that to drive wear, not
diskette corrosion.  The heads are no longer where they were when they wrote
the diskette, so many years ago, so I 'shop' around the office for a pc
whose diskette heads will read it.  For your climate, have you tried
refrigerating the diskettes?  Won't hurt them to get cold.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Eugene Davis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 9:03 PM

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

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