I got a nice little package in the mail today. Huge folder with all kinds of great pieces of videogame development. No software just papers. I sorted a bit and then jumped in the tub after a hard days work. Wait till I get out out of the tub to finish looking thru the stash you say. Not me! I gotta see it now ! Into the tub it falls.....What the hell is this a floopy disc?!?!? That wasn't supposed to be in here. I grab it quick but not quick enough. Good thing I spent a hard day at work and not a long day at the buffet or it would have been the toilet not the tub I say to myself. Then I look at the 3.5 inch floppy disc. "Sonic the Hedgehog" Ohh shit I wonder if this was important! So it is soaked. I tried it in the PC but no good the inner lining is wet and it must be sticking. Any ideas or should I just flush it!
Only thing to do is let it air dry completely before you put it into a floppy drive. Then just pop it in and see if it works. From what I understand (going by a few google searches) it should still work unless it was damaged when it was inserted while still wet on the inside. I hope it's not broken, would be interesting to see what's on it.
......... dry it out and try it? Really though that sucks hard, being on a floppy it must have been older like a genesis game or something. I would try anything you can to salvage it.
Ok here is the disc. As you can (or can't I dunno) see the lining is wet and after I tried to read it in the drive it now sticks out. Should I try and yank the rest out? Its sitting on the Sega folder it was hidden in.
Im not expert on this area so I would wait for someone who knows more then me but a option might be to disasemble the disk, air dry it for a few hours then put it in another floppy housing (if you can do that)
yeah that was my first thought but I dunno if you can do that as the housings seem to be molded shut.
I wouldnt rush the job, I would do some reserch and ask around a bit more before trying anything. (other then drying it some more and testing the disk again)
Hint for the future : Take showers... The main problem with discs getting wet is that the insides get stuck to the disc surface ruining large chunks of it. If you had soap in the bath, then I would remove the disc from the case, clean it with pure water and let it air dry in a warm place out of sun and dust and put it into another case (you will need a sharp scalpel and some strong thin sellotape to close it) and then attempt to read it, USB drives seem to be much more tollerant at reading discs then internal ones for some reason...
