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What should I do with all of these driver floppies?

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First post, by Kahenraz

Posted on 2022-10-31, 04:19

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I'm planning to image them and then auction them off as a bulk lot on eBay. I would like to preserve all of the drivers somewhere, so they they aren't lost.

Where would be a good place to do this? Is this something that I should do through VOGONS or Archive.org, or something else.

Thank you.

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Reply 1 of 4, by leileilol

Posted on 2022-10-31, 05:32

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VGACopy 'em, then vogonsdrivers.com 'em

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Reply 2 of 4, by Kahenraz

Posted on 2022-10-31, 06:20

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Thanks for the advice. This tool was able image some of the disks that were failing to read in WinImage due to copy protection.

Reply 3 of 4, by bttr

Posted on 2022-10-31, 13:28

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Copy protection on driver disks? Sounds strange to me.

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Reply 4 of 4, by RandomStranger

Posted on 2022-10-31, 13:48

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If it's for something useful, archiving them is indeed a good idea. For useless stuff like modem cards I'd just wipe them and use for whatever purpose. I'd expect driver floppies to be higher quality than most commercial diskettes.

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