Whatever work you will decide to do, this will also be a good opportunity to both reorganize and back up your data. Once you have put together all your disks you need to decide how to store the data in a format which can be accessed on the system where the emulation is running. If you are hoping that your old Amiga computer will still be there in the near future to transfer your Amiga disks to the PC via Amiga Explorer, the Amiga will cease to function the next time you switch it on.If you are hoping that some future technology will be able to read your unreadable Amiga floppy disks, you will lose your disks (and patience) before such technology is ready.If you did not backup your archive, not only will all of your original disks have become unreadable, but you will also lose all your archived disks.By the time you realize that you need something which you originally decided not to archive, it will have become unreadable.If you have a lot of disks and opt for a partial archive of your disks (rather than archiving all of your disks), you will never again find the time and will to archive the remaining disks.Sooner or later (usually sooner) your aging floppy disks will become unreadable.As always, keep in mind 'Murphy's Laws Applied to Amiga Floppy Disks':

We recommend the following strategies and procedures for archiving floppy disk data and keeping it accessible for future use.įirst of all, you need to decide what you wish to archive. Even if your Amiga computer is still working, your floppy disks are aging and may soon become unreadable. Q: I have a collection of data and software on floppy disks, how can I use it in Amiga Forever?Īs Amiga users since 1986 and publishers of Amiga Forever we understand how important it is for you to preserve your digital past.

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