3.5 inch floppy disk
- Creighton Barrett
Owned by Creighton Barrett
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.
Technical standards
Software tools for working with floppy disks
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 object type description
| 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. |