If they're more than 4 or 5 years old, chances are they'll be unreadable anyway. Magnetic degradation - it's a fact-of-life.
[Back when I was involved with a rather large data-storage program for NIREX we copied and verified all the archival magtapes on a six-monthly cycle to avoid this 'magnetic bit-rot' problem]
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Date: 2011-09-05 06:53 pm (UTC)[Back when I was involved with a rather large data-storage program for NIREX we copied and verified all the archival magtapes on a six-monthly cycle to avoid this 'magnetic bit-rot' problem]