Recently i came across a set of installer floppies for Adobe Premiere 2.0. I didn't notice at first, but they seem to have been exposed to the sun. The disks felt funny but it didn't click to me until i inserted disk 1 to the floppy unit in my PowerBook 190. It sounded like the floppy was slipping from the mechanismm until it was automatically "ejected". The disk locked inside the mechanism and i had to use a clip to eject it completely. The disk is warped. Then the urge to image the disks as soon as possible was my main task for today. I tried the rest of the disks and disk 2 came with a read error. Disk 3 & 4 were imaged successfuly, and disk 5 went good after 2 retries. I decided to test disk 1 & 2 on several other macs to see if i had better luck. After trying to read them on a powerbook 1400, a PowerMac 7500/100, a MacSE, a Mac SE/30, two external floppies on a powerbook duo, and two external 800k drives on the SE, i gave up. In the past i had success reading such floppies by removing the aluminum cover but this was not the case. Before continuing here are some photos of the warped floppies (i apologize in advance if the photos load slowly, i didn't create thumbnails):

Warped magnetic media:

The solution:
All the problem is the warped media. Luckily, the magnetic media is flexible, so applying pressure should flatten it right? So i proceeded to dissasemble my external 800k floppy drive so i could have access to the heads when the floppy is being read.

Anyway, applying gently pressure with a pencil to the head while the disk is being read did the trick. Disk 2 went good after 2 retries, and the installation disk went good at the first try.

That's it folks, let me know what do you think of this. After making the images i tested the installation set and it went perfect, no errors. Expect this set of floppies to be uploaded soon, i think they must be preserved after all this effort.