Does exist a way to restore a genuine not working floppy? (I remember something about KryoFlux)

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Hi,
i've found a couple of floppyes damaged. They are not readable.
Turrican II and The Great Giana Sister.
Considering the worth of that game I would like to "restore" them if possible.

Some years ago I did the same here, thanks to an Amibay user, who restored another original game with the floppy damaged.
I don't remember the user and the process... in my mind runs something like "Kryoflux"...

Can you help me?
 
Hi
it's possible to restore a game which has been dumped already using kryoflux sfw/hw, only if physical supports of your disks are 100% functional afaik.
 
The GreaseWeazle can do the same by reading the disk in a raw format and writing it in an Amiga scp format, as can the SuperCardPro I own.
For fully damaged disks, I have transferred the label to a similar disk with either an illegal (or legal) copy, or if that was unavailable, a cracked copy. I prefer not to do games, as I am not much of a gamer, and the risk of someone trying to sell an "archived" disk.
 
My disk is damaged, is not possible to format, so I think I cannot write anything over it.
I remember in the past a work with the cutter due to open the floppy case and remove the old magnetic disk, replace it with a new one where copy the genuine copy...maybe with kryoflux
 
Violo said:
My disk is damaged, is not possible to format, so I think I cannot write anything over it.
I remember in the past a work with the cutter due to open the floppy case and remove the old magnetic disk, replace it with a new one where copy the genuine copy...maybe with kryoflux
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I've tried that in the past and failed both times due to the aluminum shutter and spring, so I wish you luck.
 
bdb said:
I've tried that in the past and failed both times due to the aluminum shutter and spring, so I wish you luck.
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I've done that with a good success rate for a few discs that have gone bad.

It's not easy though :(
 
Would it be possible to slit open the sides of the 3.5 floppy disk and replace the disk media with one from a new disk? So that you would end up with an authentic shell that has new media inside?
Didn't see it above - my bad.
 
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