Exchange of experience is a method that recovers 100%-80% of floppy disks.

                                                              
approx. ed: this article is dedicated to those spektrumists who  
they sit behind real Spectrums.                               
                                                              
   Surely there will be spektrumists who have 5`25 wheels  
They begin to slowly die. At first the disk is not restored, but  
then it stops formatting altogether. In other words, the disk  
died. But don’t rush to throw it in the trash. There is one me-  
A method that recovers from 100%-80% floppy disks.               
   And now about the method itself. So: take the disk re-  
turn it so that the slot is on the right side, like  
this is shown in Fig. 1                                         
                                                              
                       
                       
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                                              
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   Потом аккуратно вскрываем нижнию часть диска, как это по-  
казано на рис.2                           
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                           
 Fig. 2                              
                                                              
   Then we take the very edge of the film and pull it out.  
We turn the film over and insert it back into the disk. Lower cha-  
If there is a disc (where you opened the disc), it is best to seal it with tape.  
   After this whole method, insert the disk into the drive and form  
matting, if all is well, then your disk will be formatted normally -  
It will serve you for a long time. But everything can't always be  
good. Sometimes it happens that the disk is so squeezed that it is already  
It's useless to restore it in any way.                             
   Once again I will repeat from 100% -80% it starts to work very well    
ok.                                                       
                                                              
   That's all. Try this method on your dead disks and  
Look, maybe these disks will start working great.              
                                                              
 (c) NIKOLA 2004  
                                                              
approx. edit: I tried this method too. I had 10 bad  
disks. After this method, 8 disks worked! So pop  
try this method.                                           
                                                              
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