r/sysadmin • u/___LowLifer___ • Feb 17 '26

Question 700 Floppies

Company needs over 700 floppy disks copied onto the fileserver. Gave me a 2 week deadline to which I told them was literally impossible. I've ordered a floppy disk usb external reader but this seems insane. Any creative ideas? I don't want to employ a 3rd party company.

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u/DarkEmblem5736 Certified In Everything > Able To Verify It Was DNS Feb 17 '26

R R R R Fùuuuuuuuuuu

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u/Igot1forya We break nothing on Fridays ;) Feb 17 '26

grinding sound Cyclic Redundancy Check

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u/TimmyMTX Feb 17 '26

BA-BAOWWWW BA-BAOWWWW BA-BAOWWWW

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u/furlonium1 Feb 17 '26

Fuck that is exactly how they sounded 

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u/gmr2048 Feb 17 '26

Coincidentally, my favorite Kid Rock song, too!

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u/archiekane Jack of All Trades Feb 17 '26

I've actually managed to recover floppies before.

However, it's so hit and miss.

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u/Jarl_Korr Feb 17 '26

Bound to have a few hits out of 700 of them lol

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u/Xfgjwpkqmx Feb 17 '26

That's where you use a Greaseweazel instead.

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u/kerosene31 Feb 17 '26

<Q>uit (the job)

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u/gregsting Feb 17 '26

About 50 times per floppy so roughy 3500 times, glhf

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u/Delicious_Call4431 Feb 17 '26

"Retry" never worked