5.25 inch. Floppy Disks

PDA 2015

Peter Chan Digital Archivist

April, 2015

Filesystem

• A filesystem is the methods and data structures that an operating system uses to keep track of files on a disk or partition; that is, the way the files are organized on the disk. - http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/filesystems.html

• A drive formatted by a Mac cannot be read

using a PC.

Apple II

Atari 810

CPM

IBM PC DOS

Unknown with Hints

Unknown

iTE iT8720

FTK Imager

Command Line FTK for Mac

FC5025

Kyroflux

Kyroflux

• Read at lowest level possible - precisely

sampling the magnetic flux transition timing.

• Save as raw stream, or export to common sector formats supporting.