It’s also just laziness and time on my part. I have a couple of ancient systems in my basement that I haven’t started in years that I think still have a floppy drive but it would take work for me to start up and sort out, then figure out how to transfer everything over.
And I haven’t motivated myself for that considering it would all be for about 10MB of data?
It’s amazing when you think about it. Thirty years when I made those floppies, it was like gold and I felt like I was holding an immense amount of data in a 1.5 MB floppy disk. And it wasn’t easy to move the data around and it took an obvious amount of time to see the data being transferred.
Now we snap a photo with an average smartphone to generate a 20 megapixel image onto a 4 MB file in the blink of an eye … every day … all the time … hundreds, thousands of times without any effort at all.
Hey, how’s it going? I managed to do about 40 disks this week (still a fraction of my hoard), though most of them had errors and I’m not sure if my method is the best way to image corrupted disks, to allow for future error correction.
It’s not like all of them were important personal stuff. I just figured it was easy enough to save everything now and look into what’s on them later. I’d just been doing dd conv=noerror but I need to see if there’s a better way.
Some of my disks were still error-free, so there’s hope for yours!
It’s also just laziness and time on my part. I have a couple of ancient systems in my basement that I haven’t started in years that I think still have a floppy drive but it would take work for me to start up and sort out, then figure out how to transfer everything over.
And I haven’t motivated myself for that considering it would all be for about 10MB of data?
It’s amazing when you think about it. Thirty years when I made those floppies, it was like gold and I felt like I was holding an immense amount of data in a 1.5 MB floppy disk. And it wasn’t easy to move the data around and it took an obvious amount of time to see the data being transferred.
Now we snap a photo with an average smartphone to generate a 20 megapixel image onto a 4 MB file in the blink of an eye … every day … all the time … hundreds, thousands of times without any effort at all.
Do it next weekend.
order the drive today
gather up the discs on wednesday
test the drive on thursday
By your own admission, 10 MB of data could be a shit-ton of stuff that sounds important to you. Just get it done.
And to not be a hypocrite, I’ll get going on my own similar project I’ve been putting off for years, haha. Do we have a deal?
Great, thanks! Full disclosure: this is how long mine has been on my to-do list.
I’m finally setting myself a due-date: later this week. Check in with me, bud, I’ll check in with you!
Hey, how’s it going? I managed to do about 40 disks this week (still a fraction of my hoard), though most of them had errors and I’m not sure if my method is the best way to image corrupted disks, to allow for future error correction.
Holy shit … now you’ve got me panicking
40 disks! … I’m was only worried about two or three disks for myself … now you’ve got me wondering how to get this done
I don’t know if I should thank you or curse you … thanks?
It’s not like all of them were important personal stuff. I just figured it was easy enough to save everything now and look into what’s on them later. I’d just been doing
dd conv=noerrorbut I need to see if there’s a better way.Some of my disks were still error-free, so there’s hope for yours!