This is the same set of floppies you've been working with since last summer?
Hi , I have some software I wrote back in 1986 , using DOS , located on 5 1/4 diskettes. Is there a service that can recover the files? Thanks,PEter
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Personally, I would stop messing with them and send them off to a data recovery company.
The more you mess with these 35 year old floppies, the more likely they are to not work at all.
The mag coating can and does flake off.
I'd be very surprised if you get more than a 50% success rate.