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    From Walt Fles@wefles@gmail.com to comp.sys.tandy on Wed Mar 11 06:32:45 2015
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    I ran across some OLD (possibly 25-30 years old) floppy disks and I am wondering how can I verify IF they are any good, on a modern pc?

    They are the 5-1/4" disks - do they even make drives for these anymore?


    Thanks
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  • From Katzy@katzy@noname.at.all to comp.sys.tandy on Fri Mar 13 14:47:56 2015
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    Hello.

    Walt Fles wrote in message ...
    I ran across some OLD (possibly 25-30 years old) floppy disks and I am wondering how can I verify IF they are any good, on a modern pc?

    They are the 5-1/4" disks - do they even make drives for these anymore?


    There is this program READDISK written by Matthew Reed for DOS/Windows which should be able to do it. You do need a 5 1/4 drive though, not USB!

    From the readme:
    READDISK is a utility program for PC compatibles that reads real TRS-80 disks and converts them into virtual disk files. Obviously, READDISK requires that your PC have the right sized disk drive; in other words, if you want to
    convert 5 1/4" TRS-80 disks, your PC must have a 5 1/4" drive installed!

    However it says too:
    READDISK cannot transfer single-density disks on most computers (because most PC disk controllers do not support single density operation).

    So a matter of just trying... ;)

    Katzy


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