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2008-09-17 12:54
swasti

Registered: Jul 2007
Posts: 120
THE MOVERS Treasure Chest II

hello dudes,

fresh from my red hot glowing 1541-ii disk drive - another transferpack (finished some minutes ago..). i got the disks from a friend with his c64.
246 transfered disk sides in the pack.
that was a bloody work - some (bad) hd disks and pc disks where in the box. some of them makes my drive crazy.

HOT!!

if you have self transfered disk - please post them! ;)

regards
swasti
 
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2009-03-18 09:34
1BM

Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 48
I've managed to transfer most of my little 200 disk collection and actually found some stuff not on csdb (will add more the following days).

so when i see all these packs - who sorts this all out? xfer takes some time, but checking back with csdb, adding info etc. - really lots of work.

and about broken disks: do you guys check them for dirt on surface or are they magnetically defect? (some of my disks were stored in a cellar for ages, 1 of 10 was broken. will try to fix, i guess some have un-csdb-ed stuff on em)
2009-03-18 10:32
E$G

Registered: Dec 2007
Posts: 842
@zerozillion: about broken disks
3 main reasons:

1- old 15-23 years old disks are not guaranteed and if they were exposed to light cold/hot places the process of degeneration increase, mushrooms-batceria-magnetical defects increase the loss!
2- traded disks have been hitten hard from postmans, bent, pressed and so on so no way to save the contents
3- some programs from broken floppies were copied in new ones during the tradin' but the source programs doesn't work so the result is a non bumpin' head floppY but not workin' at all as it was in the original.

It's useful to clean the head of the disk drive (better a 1541II)

The procedure I'm using to transfer my huge collection can be found here:
Marauding E$G/IBB pandora's 5 1/4 boxeS!

thX to everyone to share their collection too!

E$G
2009-03-18 15:30
Mace

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799
My procedure:
- Tools: 1541-II connected with a XAP1541 cable to an MS/DOS PC running StarCommander;
- I regularly clean the drive head with cotton swabs and alcohol (not potable ;) );
- I don't clean the floppies;
- When errors occur I try to do re-reads, but if too many errors remain, I switch to auto-skip.

Easy :)
2009-03-18 18:39
1BM

Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 48
when there is visible dirt on the disc itself and nothing else helps, i cut the sleeve open, clean the disc carefully with soap and medium hot water, carefully dry and put into a new sleeve. it can't get more broken than it already is ;)

at some point i wanted to build a "disc washing" machine, still on my to do list.
2009-03-19 14:21
swasti

Registered: Jul 2007
Posts: 120
new stuff....

http://rapidshare.com/files/208675131/swasti_fmb28.rar

and as .nib

http://rapidshare.com/files/208676013/swasti_fmb28_NIB_.rar

@zerozillion: please share the transfered disks here as a full pack - or pm/msg me.
2009-03-23 21:46
Mace

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799
Transfered with StarCommander, this is the second and last box of the Culemborg collection: Culemborg 2 (15MB).

Why Culemborg?
It's the name of the town where the guy lived who gave this to me :)
The discs had a lot of errors and I often just kicked 'auto skip on error', to speed up the process.

Earthshaker's collection will be transfered using NibTools, to improve quality and speed.
First box will be up soon.
2009-03-23 22:08
troop
Account closed

Registered: Jul 2006
Posts: 10
thanks mace & swasti for the new stuff :-)

i have sent my disks to acidchild , will be transferred hopefully soon . another box with 100+ disks on the way too
2009-03-24 09:31
maestro

Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 727
sounds good troop :)

how many disks do you have in total approx for transferr??
2009-03-24 12:17
swasti

Registered: Jul 2007
Posts: 120
here is the first from two packs from charly (a guy here from austria). this disks are ebay buys. there are all transfered disks in - also the complete broken ones and the empty disks.
the second pack will come in some weeks - i have other things todo @ the moment.
charly1-d64
and as nib if someone wants them:
charly1-nib
2009-03-24 13:08
Mace

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799
Who of you guys is using NibTools to transfer?
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