I needed to copy data from several hard drives that have been running every day since 1990(or so), and almost 100 floppy disks. Bit rot is very real, I found DDRescue to be indispensable.

Disk copy programs countered these by raw-reading whole tracks ... The IBM PC used the NEC 765 floppy controller chip. Copy Protection techniques relied on non-standard disk formatting that ...

Click the Floppy Disk Icon in the Windows Explorer window to open the virtual floppy drive and view the image. Copy or open the files on the virtual driver just as you would with any physical ...

To use a Floppy Disk Drive on a Windows 11/10 laptop or desktop computer, you can download the Driver or create a Virtual Floppy Disk using these free tools.

How to Retrieve Files From an Unreadable Floppy. In the 1990s, floppy disks were the medium of choice for home and business users alike to copy and store important data. Floppy disk use declined ...

I've been trying to find a disk cloning utility to backup my WinXP boot drive. I never expected this to be such a PITA. I've tried 8 disk cloning utilities so far, with no luck. First of all, my ...

Mr. Persky now works to sell empty floppy disks, but at the time he founded the company his job was to copy floppy disks. In the 1980s and 1990s, copying floppy disks was 'like printing money ...