I tried the DOS version of TestDisk and it does not detect the LS-120 drive at all in Windows 98SE or in pure DOS mode (yes, they are readable in DOS), so it seems that program just doesn't have the correct method of detecting LS-120 disks. The disks haven't been written to in 20 years so it's unlikely that anything beyond the ~70MB mark on them has been overwritten at any point. Lately I've been trying to scrounge up some data that I seemingly lost many years ago, and while the data does not appear to be on these disks and isn't in any of the backups of them that were made over the years, there is actually a large portion of free space on both disks and I think my last hope of finding the missing data may be in running some file recovery software on them to see if there's anything of use left in the empty space that had been deleted. I have two Imation LS-120 SuperDisks that came with my Gateway G6-400 way back in 1999. no the disks haven't failed! They are both perfectly readable and their current contents were backed up decades ago.
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