disk went bad, how can I get the info off of it?

[Guest]

I was using word last night and saved on a disk. Now I can't bring up the
info from the disk. I get an error message that the disk has not been
formatting or has been formatted for macintosh. Then the next message I get
says that it does not recongize disk media. I have used this disk before
with no problems.

 

[Guest]

You should never save the only copy on a floppy. Save to your hard drive,
then copy to floppy. You're out of luck unless you saved another version or a
copy on your hard drive.

 

[Graham Mayor]

You probably can't get the information off it. File recovery tools such as
OnTrack's Easy recovery Pro may help, but essentially the disc is corrupt.
This is a frequent experience of those who open and save Word documents
directly to floppy. Always open and save via the hard drive and copy to
floppy.

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[Chuck]

You might try opening explorer, drag the file over to your desktop, and then
try opening it.

Good Luck
Chuck

 

[Graham Mayor]

If the disc is corrupt you will not be able to access it with Explorer.

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