Subj : How should I archive old floppies?
To   : Arelor
From : Boraxman
Date : Sun Jun 22 2025 10:27 am

 Re: How should I archive old floppies?
 By: Arelor to nelgin on Sat Jun 21 2025 06:56 am

>   Re: How should I archive old floppies?
>   By: nelgin to  on Wed Jun 18 2025 04:55 pm
>
>  > I've got a lot of floppies that have drivers and software for
>  > old hardware. I'm trying to decide what's the best way to
>  > archive them for others to use.
>
> I a not familiar with floppies specifically, but as a rule of thumb it is
> better to just create an image from the media you are archiving and then
> compress the images themselves. You never know if a piece of media stores
> information that is not contained in the files themselves but in some non
> standard way - a good example is CDs storing information in subchannel data.
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>
Not to mention, keeping the image will ensure that the file attributes remain
intact, and that the floppy disk label remains.

Floppy disks have labels, and these are sometimes important for the operation
of the software.  For example, an installer may use the disk label to determine
what disk number it is.  PKZIP does this too.

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