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Old mac disk question

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  • 16-11-2002 2:01pm
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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,436 ✭✭✭✭


    I have some old mac disks (c. 1993, 720kb) is there anyway of recovering the information from them? Only 1 out of 7 gets a response from either a mac or pc (other than, do you want to format this disk).

    Can anyone help?


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    Dustaz
    Registered Users Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Dustaz


    Good question.

    I ran into this problem a while back and after wrecking my head trying everything including norton, i assumed that they were simply too old and the information on the disk had 'faded' (I assume the alignment of magnetic particles suffer from some sort of entropy eventually ) due to them sitting on a shelf for 4 years.

    Of course i also could be talking complete ****e, so roll roll up, roll up and answer us!


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    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭RicardoSmith


    I think you can safely assume that a floppy disk that is 9yrs old has degraded beyond repair. What ever you had on it and that you haven't accessed in 9yrs can hardly be very important. Some CD's don't last that long!


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    DiscoStu
    Registered Users Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭DiscoStu


    Lisa in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics.

    Almost all my old floppys have decided that their magnetisim was no longer needed after 10 years of doing nothing.


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    po0k
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    I've a 40meg SCSI-2 drive I salvaged from a mac, still working, albeit with a windows FAT16 partition of max 32 megs (31 usable) and 8megs unused.


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    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭RicardoSmith


    I've a couple of 10yr+ mac's myself all soldiering on with their original hard disks. One has a 230mb and the other a 2gb one. Actually the 3.5 disks I have with their software are still ok, but last year I backed them all up to CD just in case the disks go bad on me.


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,436 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    What if it is just the upgrades in the Mac OS just aren't compatible with disks that old? Is this possible?


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    DiscoStu
    Registered Users Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭DiscoStu


    the format had a slight change around the introduction of os8. the disk format was backward and forward compatable the only real difference was that the newer format couldnt be booted from using a non PowerPC based mac.


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