Date   : Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:29:16 +0000
From   : "W.Scholten" <whs@...>
Subject: Re: Yowsers: This one make of floppy discs getting damaged in drive!

Mr. Micro wrote:

> The picture shows the end result of trying to read all
> this variety of disc in any of my 5 drives:
> 
> http://whitebody.tripod.com/damaged_disc.jpg
> 
> The disc makes a terrifying high pitch noise when it
> spins round.

[ snip ]

> Any ideas what is going wrong to cause this? It could
> be the jacket or the hub of the disc. I am thinking of
> extracting the disc from its jacket and putting it in
> a different jacket but still thinking about it.

Almost certainly: The magnetic layer is coming off onto the drive head.
See:
       http://www.astro.livjm.ac.uk/~bbc/varia/durability.html

The stripes on the disk seem to confirm this.

Copy the  data, then throw away the disc. Throw the disc away
immediately if you don't need the data :)

Regards,

Wouter
-- 
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