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Originally Posted by lumpynose
That's what I was thinking as well, but then one of the sites that google turned up warned about old floppies having deteriorated and the oxide flaking off when you try to read it since the head does touch it. Which brings up the question of how careful a recovery place would be for stuff like that. If I really want to do it I'll go to the nearest one and ask and see what their procedure is.
At work we had a hard drive fail and then discovered that the backups weren't being done; the place I took it too disassembled the drive and had a special setup for extracting the data from each platter. And we paid a fortune for the job.
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I know of no way of reading a floppy without the heads having contact with the disk
If you want the data back, I'd still recommend getting a USB drive, but also get software that can read the entire data as a disk image in one pass, so as to reduce any back-and-forth on the disk.