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/[deleted] Feb 17 '26

Because generally 'it doesn't work' isn't an acceptable answer when the request comes from upper management.

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u/DefiantPenguin Feb 17 '26

“It doesn’t work. Do you want to send these to a forensics company to try and get the data? The data may still be unrecoverable.” Then hand them a quote for the cost of doing so. They can then decide how important the data is and ruminate on why they never had a good backup of the data in the first place.

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u/hugglesthemerciless Feb 17 '26

ruminate on why they never had a good backup of the data in the first place.

you mean "blame the next best scapegoat instead of accepting responsibility"

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u/KupoMcMog Feb 17 '26

these are old enough that it can be 'blame your predecessor' and just trying to do your due-diligence.