Re: 5.25 --> 3.5 Floppy Disk migration Message #5 Posted by Andrés C. Rodríguez (Argentina) on 15 Apr 2010, 9:08 a.m., in response to message #3 by Dave Shaffer (Arizona)
The formatting and filesystem are critical to read those floppies. For instance, I have one 5.25" hard-sectored, and I don't think I will ever be able to read the files it contains. Perhaps with a huge time budget it can be done, but such budget doesn't exist.
It the files were created on a PC or similar equipment (MS-DOS, FAT), you will be able to recover, but if they were created on a CP/M system (i.e.: Z-80 machines as just one example), things will be harder. Were your disks created on an HP-85 with an external floppy drive, perhaps connected to HP-IB (just guessing)?
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