Re: XP FDD Problems Ever Fixed?

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Chris wrote:

On Mar 24, 4:31 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chris wrote:
SNIP

I don't know if I buy into 3.5" floppy technology being completely
unreliable. I still have DOS floppies that I can read on my NT or 98
machines. They must be 10-15 years old (yeah, I know, why do I keep
them? Maybe to give to a museum someday?).


"Unreliable" doesn't mean mean that no floppy disk is readable 10-15 years
after being written. It means that you can not *rely* on its being
readable--that a significant number of such floppies will not be readable.

If I had any floppies containing data that old, and that data was important
to me, I would copy it to another medium asap (in fact, I would have done it
long ago).

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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