• Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    The price for that GREASEWEAZLE is really good, around just 25 euro! Anyone ever tried it? I have two floppies that have sentimental value for me. One is from elementary school, I wanted to do a backup five years ago with an USB drive and fucking Windows Defender “cleaned” a boot virus by quick formatting the drive. The USB drive ignored the status of the “read only” tab and allowed that. I wasn’t able to recover the data with any data recovery software (it shows empty because the MBR has gone) but the data is there, visible with an hex editor from a full image

    The other is from middle school but there’s a zip file that I can’t copy because of a damaged sector. I would still be pointless, right?

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      It works on a different level than a lot of tools. You need an actual floppy drive to hook it to, but it records the raw flux data on the disc. That’s the layer “below” a filesystem.

      There are then tools that will convert the flux image into a filesystem that can be mounted or modified with disc image editing tools.