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Flopp Disk
I've been using a floppy disk for about 2 years now. All of a sudden a few weeks ago, when I tried to open it an error meesage came up and said "The disk in drive A is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" I was told formatting would erase everything on the disk, so I didn't do that. Does anyone know of any way to fix the disk, or can I go someplace to have the info taken out of the disk, or buy a product that'll fix the disk. Thanks you so much... this is very important to me.
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First things first:
It is possible that the floppy drive in your computer has gone bad. They are not very expensive if that is the case.
The best way to find out: Try reading the floppy disk in another computer. If it reads in another machine, then have the floppy drive in your computer replaced. (You could try cleaning it with a floppy drive cleaning kit.)
If the disk doesn't read in a different machine, then you need to decide what the data on the disk is worth. If you made the mistake of storing some priceless piece of info on a 10 cent disk without a backup, then you may want to send the disk to a professional data recovery house. These are not cheap, but if it is POSSIBLE to get the data back, then they will for sure.
If it is not terribly important, you can try a disk repair utility on it. I would try Norton Disk Doctor if you have it.
If not, then how about this:
Open "My Computer"
Make sure you have the floppy in the drive.
RIGHT-click on the "3 1/2 Floppy A:" text.
Click on "Properties"
Click on the "Tools" tab.
The top choice is "Error-Checking"
Click "Check Now"
Check both of the check boxes: "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors"
Click "Start"
Let me know how you do.
DangerNerd.
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Well first off information is never really lost on the drive but is written over, no matter how many times you "erase informatin on your disk" (formatting).
Working as a computer lab assistant for 2 years this is the number one problem that i see with floppy disks. I would recommend that you buy badcopy pro, which could retrieve files from corrupted floppy drives. It has helped me and alot of other people.
Here's the link..
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I'm sure that that will help.. There's other free software out there for data recovery but personally i havent used them. If you get bad copy pro i'm sure it'll come in handy for you and maybe a stranger along the way.
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Um....dont buy anything to fix the disk....get a newdsk maybe. Actually once at school it krpt doing that on one of the computers, but it didnt do that on any of the other computers...tell your parents, maybe your computer needs to be checked...or het a new floppy...they r cheap anyways. USB sticks are better anyways. Hope i helped!
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The Floppy Disk is not very up to date, they can brake easly and are not very reasuring as you found out. Acualy all new computers dont have floppy drives! They only have CD drives! I would start using cds!
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