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Floppy Disks/(A:) Drive
I have about 12 floppy disks from about 4 or more years ago. I thought I had lost them, but I had them the whole time! Anyway, I put them in the (A:) Drive and it took FOREVER for it to read them. Finally, a box popped up saying that my disks needed to be formatted; however, going through the process would erase any information on the disks. I doubt there is anything on the disks I can't live without, but I don't need the disks anymore..just the information on them. Is there anyway I can go about getting the information onto my computer? Maybe from another computer?
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Floppy disk are prone to errors/corruption (just like a politician.) If you are getting that error, chances are the diskettes are corrupt. If you want to spend some money, there's always hardware/software recovery tools and businesses that will charge you a pretty penny to recover the data. Not all is lost but you'll probably pay for it too.
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if the disk has a write protect switch, flip it, then put the disk in. it might be an old file system that your computer cant write to, thats why it wants to format. in read only, it might read it. you can also try clicking format yourself, but then canceling. other than that, i doubt there is much you can do. you could use an old computer, that might work.
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