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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

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Edit2: the read head is not rusted. In fact, it looks like new. ๐Ÿ˜… Tried both LOAD"*",8 and LOAD"$",8 on another ten or so disks, with the same file not found error.

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[โ€“] jayemar@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

40 years later I learn that I didn't need to type the spaces

It's all right. ๐Ÿ˜‚