Floppy Management
Posted: September 27th, 2023, 4:54 pm
Getting ready for a vacation here on Halloween week, so I'm getting things ready for it
One of those things, is getting my camera ready
I need to make sure I have some good working storage media for my Sony Mavica FD-73
I went through and formatted all the floppies I have to see if any were bad or unstable. Here are the results:
Out of 88 disks
55 are wiped and ready to go
3 of those were dead on Windows, but formatting them on the camera saved them
6 have things on it I'm not ready to wipe
6 can be read by my camera but failed on Windows 10
2 have damaged covers, and will get stuck if I inserted them
23 can't be read at all 
That 23 is less than the last time I did this back in 2019, which means either I was able to save a few, or I've lost some dead ones since then. I'm still keeping them, as I'm confident that most aren't truly dead, just need something to brute force a partition on them. Anyways, point is I have enough stuff for my vacation
One of those things, is getting my camera ready
I need to make sure I have some good working storage media for my Sony Mavica FD-73
I went through and formatted all the floppies I have to see if any were bad or unstable. Here are the results:Out of 88 disks
55 are wiped and ready to go 3 of those were dead on Windows, but formatting them on the camera saved them 6 have things on it I'm not ready to wipe 6 can be read by my camera but failed on Windows 10 2 have damaged covers, and will get stuck if I inserted them 23 can't be read at all That 23 is less than the last time I did this back in 2019, which means either I was able to save a few, or I've lost some dead ones since then. I'm still keeping them, as I'm confident that most aren't truly dead, just need something to brute force a partition on them. Anyways, point is I have enough stuff for my vacation
