<div dir="ltr">I'd typically find floppies that didn't work after a few years for whatever reason back when they were the shiznit still, I can't imagine they hold up much over time, and imagine charging for someone scanning hundreds of them and not recovering anything more often than not. I have binders full of cd's and dvd's as well I don't much expect to work much better if I ever had to dig them out for anything important.<div><br></div><div>Your best option for profitability doing that is probably for tips to the fbi for questionable things you *do* find<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-geek-squad-customer-data-seach_us_5aa004b3e4b002df2c5fc9bc"> </a><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-geek-squad-customer-data-seach_us_5aa004b3e4b002df2c5fc9bc">like geek squad does</a>.<br><div><br></div><div>-mb<br><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 10:03 AM Jim <<a href="mailto:azanorak@gmail.com">azanorak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>This thread got me thinking. I wonder what kind of opportunities
there might be for someone to start a business that specializes in
recovering data from old formats people don't use anymore.<br>
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<div class="gmail-m_3630084044921155615moz-cite-prefix">On 1/7/19 10:26 PM, Thomas Scott wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html" target="_blank">http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html</a> -
found this as a possible solution, if you're unable to find a
USB drive or an old machine that's bootable </div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 12:12 PM Michael Butash
<<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>>
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<div dir="ltr">I had an old thinkpad usb 3.5 floppy disk drive
accessory I kept around to boot cranky systems back in the
day, as oddly when some wouldn't work with certain usb cd,
that floppy always worked. I'd offer it up, but I haven't
seen/used it in 10+ years, and don't even know where to
start looking for it, but I'm sure you can still find them
on ebay.
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<div>Good luck on the 5 inch, that you're just going to need
an old relic system for I think, but wouldn't surprise me
to see some hackers have made adapters to a more modern
interface and power for those as well.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 9:33 AM Matthew Gibson
<<a href="mailto:guanjun.de.geliqian@gmail.com" target="_blank">guanjun.de.geliqian@gmail.com</a>>
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<div dir="auto">My parents have been cleaning out their
home and came across some 3 1/2 inch floppy disks, they
also found some 5 inch floppies. Does anyone have an
appropriate drive for either of these media items? I am
looking to borrow, but I don't imagine it will be
difficult to scrounge up the funds to purchase a drive
or two. All we are wanting us to pull what data we can
off them.</div>
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