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  • stj
    Great Sage 齊天大聖
    • Dec 2009
    • 30953
    • Albion

    #61
    maybe recap the analog section of the drive

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    • eccerr0r
      Solder Sloth
      • Nov 2012
      • 8682
      • USA

      #62
      no evidence pointing whether it's the disks or it's the computer... the disks look a little funky...

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      • Agent24
        I see dead caps
        • Oct 2007
        • 4939
        • New Zealand

        #63
        Originally posted by eccerr0r
        no evidence pointing whether it's the disks or it's the computer... the disks look a little funky...
        Moldy? Happens a lot to floppies and tapes
        "Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
        -David VanHorn

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        • eccerr0r
          Solder Sloth
          • Nov 2012
          • 8682
          • USA

          #64
          quite possible. Don't know. Weird that it would damage the mag layer enough to make it unable to be recordable again...

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          • eccerr0r
            Solder Sloth
            • Nov 2012
            • 8682
            • USA

            #65
            Also wtf. People say you can clean mold off floppy disks? And be readable once more? Seems a bit unbelievable IMHO.

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            • TurcoLoco
              Member
              • Mar 2025
              • 16
              • USA

              #66
              Currently, have only one desktop running Windows 10 Pro. Of all the 64-bit Windows flavors, 10 is hands down my favorite but among the 32-bit ones, Windows XP was my fav.
              I am and have always been a Windows user, mainly due to being a gamer.
              I have been goofing around with GNU-Linux almost as long as I have with Windows but for the better part of the last 25 years of using Linux, I used different versions on VMs.
              I think I only installed on an actual computer, and for a very brief time, 5 different versions; eLinux, Suse, LinuxMint, Kali and Zorin during those 25 years and spent probably less than 10 hours total playing around with them all.

              For work, I had to learn just enough to support Mac OS users over the years but I really dislike anything Apple! 😬

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