Semi-OT: HEEEEEEEELP!!!!!

[Kamog]

I have had a lot of trouble with floppy disks dying. I often use floppy disks to transfer small files from one computer to another, and it is not unusual to copy some files onto the disk, go to the other machine, and the disk is unreadable. Then I bring the disk back to the original computer, and it's still unreadable. Occasionally I just shake the disk a bit, flick the metal shutter open and close a couple times, and put it back in the drive, and it recovers. But more often than not, the disk is dead and I throw it away.

And the other thing I noticed. It's not a good idea to carry floppy disks unprotected in your shirt pocket. I thought they made those disks 3 1/2" in size so that it fits in your pocket, but I find that if I do that the disks tend to die even faster.