Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it?

• Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  FAT12, and no it doesn’t work natively. I know this because I had to replace a floppy to fix a 40 year old computer earlier this year.

  You can get a USB 3.5" floppy drive working with just some special software, but a 5.25" FDD was a huge pain involving open source hardware (greaseweazle) that reads the raw magnetic flux values that then have to be run through another janky piece of software to interpret it.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Neither of those, my guy.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It would have been more accurate for me to frame it as file formats only.

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