Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
By rietta · 2026-09-07 · 5 points · 4 comments
My first attempt at restoring 1991 Learning Company Spellbound for DOS for my children is dubious. Despite being stored nowhere near magnetic sources, there are read errors on the 3.5 inch floppies and Linux could not mount them. ddrescue extracted data but I have not confirmed…
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