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I have disassembled and dedusted the disk drive and still get this error on an Commodore 64. Is it probable that the floppy diskettes are simply demagnetized by now? I am trying to recover some of dad’s old essays and poems.
Edit: the error channel says READ ERROR
Edit2: the read head is not rusted. In fact, it looks like new. 😅 Tried both LOAD"*",8 and LOAD"$",8 on another ten or so disks, with the same file not found error.
You might try
OPEN 15,8,15,“I”
https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=72971
Thanks for looking that up! I’ll do this whenever I get such an error. As for now, it didn’t help, so I’m still leaning towards it being faulty/dead disks.