imation superdisk with encryption drivers

#Imation superdisk with encryption drivers plus#

WinXP assigns to an ATAPI/IDE or parallel LS-120 drive the drive letter B:, but Win98 assigns to LS-120 drives a drive letter following the HDDs, e.g. I was not able to get VGA-Copy v5.3 to run with LS-120 drives under Win98, the initial hurdle being the drive letter assignment: VGA-Copy works with floppy drives A: and B. In subsequent postings I will explain how ancient VGA-Copy v5.3, of 1994, can be made to run fine with LS-120 drives under WinXP.

#Imation superdisk with encryption drivers plus#

The combo VGA-Copy v5.3 plus LS-120 drive is probably the best tool to recover damaged floppy disks. VGA-Copy can be set to read bad sectors up to 99 times and LS-120 drives have a much better error correction than regular floppy drives. VGA-Copy v5.3 is arguably the best floppy disk copying and formatting software.

Maybe others, who don't have v5.3, may attempt to get v6.25 going. Since my old v5.3 works fine now with LS-120 drives, I will not pursue v6.25 any further. The freeware VGA-Copy v6.25 and also recognizes LS-120 drives under WinXP, but when reading in a floppy with my 11-year old Inspiron 7500 laptop, or with my more modern dual core desktop, I eventually get the err msg: 'Out of memory, aborted'.

VGA-Copy v5.3, however, has issues with USB LS-120 drives under WinXP. VGA-Copy v5.3 works with an LS-120 drive under WinXPĪfter quite a bit of fiddling around, VGA-Copy v5.3 works fine with ATAPI/IDE (=internal) and parallel LS-120 drives under WinXP.

It's definitely worth while looking at the index in posting #1, the LS-120 topic is huge and it's easy to loose the overview over all the info and details spread out across various postings.