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I've had some success and some fails with this method of removing the horizontal lines. You have to be very lucky and it will melt the plastic. Make sure to have good ventilation. I'd also recommend fixing the lines BEFORE installing a backlight in case you brick the screen.

I am going to try this on some of my 'dead' discs. Can you clarify what soap you used please? Was it ' 'washing up liquid'?

Amazing video and music as well. Did you compose the music? Awesome ❤ I wanted to ask you something, if there are a couple of stripes or lines on the floppy disk, that could mean it is ruined already? My floppy disks have those after I put them on the floppy device ( I don't know the correct name) most of disquetes don't work. Is it possible the device is damaged and ruined my floppy disks? Thanks.

I'm sorry, but this video really DOES need an update. I cannot see HOW there is any possibility to use a soldering iron on the white plastic section to fix the horizontal lines. That piece HAS to be removed, or the screen removed again to access the ribbon cable strips. No WAY can the heat pass through that piece without melting it.

Great video and found it very interesting and informative

So, I know this is really late, but I have several 3-1/2 in floppies that I need to repair. I cut the film inside before tossing, then found my photo program didn't save them. Would splicing tape work...? Does anyone know of a program that reads the old Kodak discs that you got when developing film?

Read heads* (top and bottom).

I have a gameboy with bivert and backlight. tried fixing my vertical lines but couldn’t get it to work. I don’t think I was letting the iron heat it for long enough or making good contact. Guess I was worried to overheat it but I will try this again and not be afraid to hold it on there for a little longer

Hi, what lube are you using? I'm not an expert, can you tell me the brand? A thousand thanks!

Please help me how to format 720 kb floppy disc

Hello, when trying to read a floppy disk it tells me that it has no format and to format it, I don't want to lose that information that it has inside, the disk is from 1996, I can do something to rescue that information safely. thank you

Can't hear with all that "music noise"!

you can also replace the floppy disk interior with a new one and copy the data onto it while keeping the original outside shell for looks

I have a lot of floppies mostly HD 3.5" 1.44mb disks, all of them i tested failed, and the drive have been cleaned, i dont understand why, I tested with other drives and other computers so for me your trick didn work. I guess the disks was not stored the right way, thats sad I think i might have close to 1000 disks, which might not work...

You are amazing! If only I watched this before spending a solid month: 1. getting a replacement 3.5 for my Roland W30 which died trying to read my old disks (probably just needed cleaning from the crude on the old disks), 2. then an external USB floppy which couldn't read DSDD, then 3. getting USB floppy replacement on my Roland W30 which led to 4. finding a vintage Dell desktop with a 3.5 floppy to transfer to the USB format, but still couldn't read many of the old disks. Following your video, I just cleaned one of my "unreadable" disk and IT WORKS ! Bless you ! Sharing your experience has helped so many of us ! I am happy with the USB replacement and your video should smooth out the bumps converting the 3.5 floppies into digital USB.

Is there any options in the computer i have to configure i can't get my sc-55 to play music on the pc but the built in demo songs work

Nice video who dosent remember Prince of Persia

Quite a few remarks on this video. the magnetic surface gold mould and the internal sheath/coating got contaminated as well. The best way for cleaning disks is to use 70% alcohol (never 90% alcohol it's too harsh) with precision coton buds (not those for ears, those for makeup people). Then simply apply 2 drops of alcohol in the reading window of the disk, and use a floppy cleaner support for 3,5" disks or 5,25" disks. then turn gently, it will kill the mould on the disk surface and also on the internal coating/sheath. repeat on the other side of the disk and that's it. Never use any cloth or paper on the disk surface, this can displace the flux stream of the track (it's very very hard to fix that so don't). And that's it. I have cleaned this way more than 2500 original games with this method (3", 3,5", and 5,25" disks).

I recently bought a bulk of 3.5" USB Floppy Drives. After opening and cleaning them they did finally work, but only for a few diskettes and eventually inaccessible errors popped up again. After encountering this issue again and again I finally found out that 3.5" Cleaning Disks exist and are a gift from the heavens. The disks I'm trying to run are from the 80s and 90s with dust & dirt on them older than I am. After a few passes with the cleaning disk the drives all are working as needed. Highly recommend a Cleaning Disk, you get a bottled cleaning solution and a disk with a microfiber inside that passes over the drive head and generally can be used 10-15 times.

On some floppies I'll swap the magnetic disc with a new old stock one that I wrote the game into before hand. Works a treat

Is the ghosting better?

Years ago I heard the horizontal lines weren’t fixable, guess they were wrong which I’m happy about!

I have a question. When you inserted the polarizing film. You said there was the yellow we all know and then rotated it to get a blue color. Could I technically leave it as the yellow? I prefer that look for nostalgia's sake. But want a backlight to be able to see better. Thanks!

Groovy

Great video! I however did not succeed in getting data back from the diskettes. It seems my Sony Mavica camera just randomly sometimes decides to smash the head onto the drive making any data recovery impossible. Edit: It could also be that the disks that I have have accumulated mold or dirt while sitting outside in a shed and the oxide layer is coming off the floppy while trying to use it. It seems to affect mostly my Nashua floppies that are possibly the newest in my collection (bought in 2005-2006).

Music is very good. Amazing you could this clean this floppy disk so that it would work.

im having horizontal lines on my nintendo ds, any advice on that? ive had it for years now and i cant seem to fix it.

Hi, unfortunately it never worked for me, but it stopped me spending ££££££ going to a data recovery service who may only have employed similar cleaning techniques. My data had evaporated over time, and cleaning in this way helped me to confirm that. You are an absolute star! thank you very much :-)

i just destroyed 2 floppy disks, thanks

Great clean up brother Sid.

Howdy. Can floppy disk still function properly without the tiny spring, holding back the metal cover?

I tried this procedure with one damaged floppy and ended up destroying it.

0:45 General failure reading drive A Abort, Retry, Fail?

Man great great video!!! Thanks a lot!!

I think I might have had this exactly issue, Okay so I put in a new used floppy and it read my disk. Than when i tried to put my windows 98 boot disk in and tried to read that disk it said error. And now it says error on all my disk I try to use with it. So all those disk I put in the drive after it broke and those all bad now? I think I only tried 3 disk's should I throw those 3 disk's away?

good video

This happened to me, i broke 2 drives

i did the same mod, and i could fix the horizontal lines, i can't believe this.... horizontal lines are not impossible...

Great vid! Very informative!

i have a factory ned floppy diskette drive and i need silicone grease for it

I just want to say, thank you. My Home Alone 2 Disk 2 floppy was given me a CDC error and I did this and it worked. Your video was most helpful and straight forward. :)

Love it! One of these days I will get a midi module to pair with one of my PCs. I remember when I was 13 or so with my first PC and I never understood what the Roland/MT-32 option meant in the installers for DOS games back in the day.

What madness is this?! I've been in the IT industry for 30+ years and have never heard of tearing down a floppy diskette and cleaning it manually like this. Holy crap, the disks I've pitched over the years figuring they were a lost cause. I'll be trying this for myself. Thanks for the video.

Was I the only one skipping a heartbeat when the floppy fell on the probably magnetic screwdriver - head at 4:25?

Great video man, well done. What temperature did you use for your soldering iron and do you hold the iron just above the points or do you actually touch them?

4:37 I would recommend single strokes from the hub to the outside of the disk. If there's debris on the disk itself, you could end up scratching the disk by moving it back and forth along the surface. I also had a disk where I attempted this trick, but it was a lost cause. The actual coating had flaked off, and cleaning it just removed the coating. It actually crashed the head on one of my floppy drives, which promptly scratched and destroyed the next disk that was inserted (I was backing up a bunch of vintage floppy disks.)

This was your first video?! Excellent work and really informative. Subscribed!

I tried with the horizontal lines and it doesn't seem to be doing anything, just melting the plastic top 😒

Cleaning the disk worked!! Thank you so much, I’m almost in shock, I bought Dagger of Amon Ra and disks 1-4 read np then the last disk failed. After cleaning per your instructions it read no problem! I even noticed a build up of some kind of junk on the disk and once gone it sure enough worked. I wonder how many disks I’ve written off as data corrupted that just needed a cleaning... I’ll be doing this all night now lol Thank you again mate!

Can I use on a newer computer?