[triadtechtalk] Re: Floppy Disk drive
- From: armando barreiro <armandobarreiro@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 03:02:15 -0800 (PST)
That's a common problem with magnetic media such as floppies.
It matters not as to which OS may have been used originally to record the
contents, the floppy disk simply deteriorates. See
<http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/clean_disks.html> and the included
hyperlinks within the article.
This trial program may help in recovering the data, but it's really designed to
promote the sale of the commercial version:
<http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/>
I can often recover some of the corrupted data by using this in Linux:
<http://www.r-tt.com/data_recovery_linux/>
<http://www.dtidata.com/free_data_recovery_software/free_floppy_disk_recovery.zip>
Good luck,
Armando
--- On Tue, 12/27/11, Sylvia Gould <nade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Sylvia Gould <nade@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [triadtechtalk] Floppy Disk drive
> To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, December 27, 2011, 12:58 PM
> I have a bunch of floppies I copied
> documents on and would like to check before I throw them
> away. Have an external drive connected, which works, but
> most of the older disks show "Disk in drive A is not
> formatted....." Anyone know a way to work around this
> just long enough to transfer the contents? Sometimes one
> will work after it's said that, but not dependable at all.
> Sylvia Gould
> nade@xxxxxxxxx
> Using Windows XP
>
> VIEW ARCHIVES @ //www.freelists.org
> UNSUBSCRIBE by sending email to triadtechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> with unsubscribe in the Subject field.
>
> To VIEW/CHANGE your subscription status go to
> //www.freelists.org/webpage/triadtechtalk
>
> Contact List Owner - dbcfour@xxxxxxx
>
VIEW ARCHIVES @ //www.freelists.org
UNSUBSCRIBE by sending email to triadtechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with
unsubscribe in the Subject field.
To VIEW/CHANGE your subscription status go to
//www.freelists.org/webpage/triadtechtalk
Contact List Owner - dbcfour@xxxxxxx
Other related posts:
