Hi MrSoundman,
I just want to thank you for being so considerate and diligent about the way you responded to my remark about losing 50% of my work. Because you decided to mention the possibility that a different kind of floppy drive might be able to read the disks that were showing as dead, I decided to go shopping for such a disk on eBay right away last night.
I found a seller offering a genuine Atari one for £22, but I inquired as to whether or not this disk drive could be used in a Windows based PC. I then went on to tell him the issue I had trying to rescue my work using STRecover, but also that the majority of the floppies were showing in red as unreadable, and therefore dead.
He mentioned in passing that it could be due to the fact that some of the disks might be high density, having two holes in the bottom section where some others have only one. I had not even considered the significance of this fact, and so I decided to check all the disks that wouldn’t read, and they all had ‘HD’ in the top right corner, as well as two holes in the bottom section. All the disks that had read successfully had no HD marking, and only had one hole on the bottom left section.
So, on a whim, I decided just for fun to use masking tape and cover one of the holes on a HD disk to make it the same as the other usable disks, whilst at the same time downloading an extended floppy driver for the STRecover program, (not sure if I needed to do this step)
When I tried the prepared disk, it read instantly and the ST image file was created. I loaded the file into the ST emulator running Cubase 3, and all the song data was present. It was surreal!!! I have now managed to recover some of my most important work, and it seams like all the disks I thought dead had in fact retained 100% of the information on them even after 25 years plus.
MrSoundman, your simple decision last night to go the extra mile with me, saved all of my life’s work, which I could never ever have reproduced by ear, since I have not composed in years, and a lot of my skill has gone (for now I hope).
I cannot thank you enough, thank you seems silly considering how much pain the loss had caused, and how suddenly you managed to turn the whole situation around overnight when I had given up all hope and begun to move on.
Amazing!! Just Amazing!!
I hope someone does as much for you some day 
