First post, by lolo799
Long story short, I bought a game, Blue Max Aces of the Great War, that you can see here:
Re: Bought these games today
It comes with three 720K floppy disks, which I assume worked, so I started dumping them using my Dell C840, first one worked, second one had some problems with a file or two, and the last one was completely unreadable.
At this point I was thinking, well, let's try with another drive, so I got a Teac USB drive out, plugged it in, and tried, didn't work, finally I fired up my old Pentium 200 tower to use my 20 years old floppy drive, and the results were identical, unreadable disk.
Now the bad part, I wanted to write an image to another floppy, used the C840, didn't work, on a floppy that was i know worked fine, I tried with a couple of good floppies, then tried with the previous tww drives as well, nothing worked, and my good floppies kept getting damaged...
The first floppy of the game:
The third one:
A victim of my new deadly drive:
And in case you want to hear the damage...
Would dismantling and cleaning the drives be enough to restore them to a working state?
Thanks for reading!
