Introduction

3.5 inch floppy disks are a type of magnetic disk storage. Floppy disks feature a thin, flexible magnetic disk wrapped in a rectangular enclosure.

Risk assessment

Data stored on floppy disk is considered to be at high-risk of loss or degradation.
Specialized software and hardware is required to recover data stored on floppy disk.

Tool	Open-source / Proprietary	Description	Uses
Disk Image and Browse	Proprietary / Free	Free software that accompanies the Device Side Data FC5025 floppy controller	Operate the FC5025 floppy controller
KryoFlux Host software	Proprietary / Free for personal use	Software that accompanies the KryoFlux floppy controller	Operate the KryoFlux floppy controller

Data element	Description
transferObjectTypeDescriptor
groupType	Each data object needs to have a parent groupType groupType element links data object to parent transfer object group type
dataObjectType
dataObjectTypeID	required element
dataObjectDescription	provides the ability to have a meaningful description as to what the Data Object means.