Problem accessing floppy drive

Shane

Super Moderator
Staff member
Hi all,

im trying to access data stored on a Floppy disk but everytime i try to open up 3½ Floppy (A) i get this damn question.

Flopprob.jpg


well obviusly i dont want to format it because i need some Word files from it but i cant access them :mad:

What do i do people?

Thanks
 

Shane

Super Moderator
Staff member
Either the disk is bad, the drive is bad, or it is an old disk missing a descriptor.

Workaround.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140060

ooh thats just great...now i have to retype the whole damn word documents again :(

that workaround quotes

Therefore, you can damage or permanently overwrite critical on-disk data structures. Use this workaround at your own risk.

im not even gonna risk that just yet...im gonna try and see if i can access it on another machine using Windows 2000 pro tommorow:cool:

thanks anyway for your reply :)
 

Holiday

New Member
it's not the drive, this happens to me all of the time. I normally just reformat it, however you could try to look for some file recovery software.
It also might have something to do with the content on that MS page.. you could try copying the disk through the command line and experimenting on the copy.

DISKCOPY [drive1: [drive2:]] [/V]

/V Verifies that the information is copied correct

The two floppy disks must be the same type.
You may specify the same drive for drive1 and drive2.
 
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