floppys & diskettes

[DPaul]

You could first try to examine the diskettes with the disks utility

I now have a bootable UBUNTU stick, and will try it out later today or tomorrow.
The purpose is to find out if legacy diskettes have a better chance of being recovered with this tool.

For people interested in this saga, I need to tweak my original statistics about diskette reading succes.
In my original batch I have about 75 diskettes (NOT floppys) of which +/- 30 % proved to be unaccessible.
Yesterday I received a new, unrelated, batch of 10, of which 1 is unaccessible.
BUT: The 75 are mostly with 1 file on the diskette, the series of 10 have 10 or 12 wordperfect files each.
On the 9 diskettes I could access and read files from, many of them caused me to 'skip' file(s) that could not be read.

So with only 1 file on a "faulty diskette", how can I tell what the problem is, the diskette or the file?
Maybe Ubuntu will tell?
Paul