DazV

I have a friend with some very important on a floppy disk. I can't believe they haven't backed up anywhere else, but when inserted, the computer reports that the disk needs formatting.

Does ANYONE know any software or companies that could retrieve the data ?

-Darren

mj

I have the same problem with zip disks between my my machine at work and the one at home.I think its the machine at work thats dicky in the way it writes to the disk.

if its only a floppy, email the files to another machine ( one that will read the disk) and backup from there.

otherv than that the disk may be goosed, but it can be recovered at a cost.

DazV

The files can't be read off the floppy.

zipzapuk

Try this , put the disk in drive when it starts to try to read the data put your finger just in and under the floppy disk in the drive , you might hear the drive trying to bite the disk and sometimes it will read it , just keeping trying different presure on the disk 1st up then drive pushing down and see if it does anygood.

DazV

Thanks for that.

Also found a data recovery tool on the net, specifically for floppies. Will give this a go.

-DV

IWatkins

I'm guessing that the floppy has been tried on the machine that actually wrote it in the first place ?

If it works there and nowhere else, it indicates something like write head misalignment or something (its been a logn time )

Cheers

Ian

GaryK

Daz,

I remember using a company in dunstable years and years ago to recover some data on 5 1/4" floppies which they did, just did a quick search and they're still around, give em a try!

http://www.comgen.co.uk/cg3.htm

DazV

Cheers All

I'm giving an app I found on the Internet to my mate who'll try and recover with it. Its specifically for damaged floppies.