Unable to read floppy disc

[Guest]

I'm trying to read a floppy disc of unknown (to me) origin. Explorer says the
disc is not formatted. DOS dir command says "The volume does not contain a
recognized file system." The disc may have been created on a MAC.

Is there a low-level utility that can dump the contents of the disc, to help
determine its format?

TIA,

Phil

 

[LVTravel]

Don't know if this will help but I use a program called MacDrive
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/freetrial/ to read and write to
certain Mac disks with my PC.

You may try using the free trial to see if it can read the disk.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for you reply, LV.

I installed MacDrive. MacDrive Disk Manager/Check Mac volumes/NEXT does not
display any drives; I assume this means the disk in the floppy drive is not a
MAC formatted disk.

It seems there should be some sort of utility running at a level lower than
the Windows File Manager that can at least dump the data on the disk. There
was a DOS product called PC Tools that, I think, included a program that did
this sort of thing. Has anyone heard of that?

Phil

Phil

 

[Bill Ridgeway]

I'm trying to read a floppy disc of unknown (to me) origin. Explorer says
the
disc is not formatted. DOS dir command says "The volume does not contain a
recognized file system." The disc may have been created on a MAC.

Is there a low-level utility that can dump the contents of the disc, to
help
determine its format?

TIA,

Phil

First, have you succefully used another floppy disk? If so that would, at
least prove that the floppy disk drive is OK. You could try something like
Restoration www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html or GetDataBack
www.runtime.org/ (for FAT). There are others. These software recover data
from bad drive so should work for your problem.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your reply, Bill.

I downloaded the restoration program and it did not work. Got "A:\ not
accessible". However, another program from the snapfiles site, File
Scavenger, was able to list the files on the disk and copy them to a folder
on my hard drive. So your advice let me to the solution. Thanks

Phil