16 Jul
2020
16 Jul
'20
10:20 p.m.
On 07/08/2020 10:54 PM, deloptes wrote:
Last year I checked many backup cds from the past
before throwing away.
Some written in 2002 were working and most written in 2007 were failing.
I always write CDs/DVDs at 1/2 or a little more of the maximum speed of the
drive or the disk, whichever is lower. It seems to get a better write than
using the max speed, because I never have write failures, and I have disks
that are almost 20 years old and still readable.
On 07/08/2020 11:34 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
I got some Samsungs that would never power on after a
few years on the
shelf.
Sometimes you can get an old drive to spin up by giving it a quick twist
around the axis. The idea is to make the platters move a little; then
sometimes it'll start.
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