From: notgonn@happen.com   
      
   "Mark McDougall"  wrote in message   
   news:9tydnYdAIPUg1ozTnZ2dnUVZ_omdnZ2d@westnet.com.au...   
   > On 4/07/2011 2:37 PM, winstonsmith wrote:   
   >   
   >> Oh, they still sell them. And yes, many are readable... they appear to be   
   >> more reliable than CDs... and when you *do* lose a file, it is usually   
   >> just the one...   
   >   
   > Just last night I tried to read a CD that I'd written about 5 years ago...   
   > the end result was Windows hanging for about 20 mins until I killed   
   > Explorer... now I've lost that for good :(   
   >   
      
   Probably not, all my discs still read fine but some newer drives are fussy   
   about older media and recording and causes the effects you describe... try   
   another drive - I have two in my PC and if one doersn't read the disk   
   chances are the other will.   
      
   > I still have two boxes of TRS-80 floppies in the garage... betting that   
   > none of them will make NEWDOS/80 hang for 20 mins! ;)   
   >   
      
   3.5" disks don't seem to be as hardy as the old 5.25" ones in my experience.   
   Aside from physical surface damage, nothing much seems to affect 5.25"   
   disks. I have cut open molten warped sleeves to recover the media and placed   
   them in a good sleeve and recovered the data and most read fine.   
      
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