Refurbishing 3.5 Floppy Disks: Swapping the cookie!

[@carlosaugustofernandesdagn7935]

Great tutorial! With it, I managed to fix a very rare more-than-30-y.o. MSX game disk. Thanks a lot! ❤🙏🏻👍🏻😁

[@compu85]

@@carlosaugustofernandesdagn7935 glad you found it useful!!

[@MMWA-DAVE]

I have tons of floppy disks from my childhood. some more than 30 years old and none have mould - this must be related to storage conditions. mine have always been inside the house and for the last 10 years in a spare bedroom. All seem to still work too astonishingly, it was a cringefest reading my homework as a child.

[@compu85]

It is more moist on the east coast of the US, I'm sure that doesn't help.

[@MarksOfdOrgan]

Can I still use the donut with the old files and transfers it to another diskette case

[@compu85]

@@MarksOfdOrgan sure!

[@HelloKittyFanMan]

Or, you could... you know... just use a new disk in its original jacket. There's nothing that's really that nostalgic about some printing that might be on the shutters of older disk jackets, and this is more trouble than it would likely ever be worth!

[@compu85]

I guess you've not noticed how different early 3.5 DD disks are to late ones. And I find ones that say Single Sided on the shutter quite nostalgic!

[@HelloKittyFanMan]

@@compu85: I guess SS ones are quite odd; what a waste of a side, since you can't flip them like you can flip a 5.25" or some 8" ones. But as for actual collector nostalgia, have you really heard a lot of rumblings going on that those would really be worth much that way, and only if they're functional?

[@compu85]

@@HelloKittyFanMan Well, the first 3.5 floppy drives were only single sided... I don't know about from a $$ amount. I just fix them because I think they're neat :) Plus, it's kind of neat to make exact replicas of the original software distribution media.

[@HelloKittyFanMan]

@@compu85: Yeah, weird that there were any SS 3.5" drives. It seems that if they were gonna make a system like that, whose disks you couldn't flip, then they should have just gone all the way and made them DS the whole time. Oh, yeah, I didn't really see the whole video yet, sorry. But if you included something about functional replicas of software releases in there, then I guess that's cool.