fixing a bad floppy

[Stephen Larivee]

Is there anything built in to Windows XP that would allow me to attempt to
fix a bad floppy? A friend gave me a floppy disk and she is trying to get
some files off of it. I can get to some files but others seem to cause the
A drive to keep cycling without anything happening. I used to have some
luck with doing a scandisk but that is no longer available. I tried doing a
chkdsk at the command prompt but that seemed to give me the status of the
floppy and not really fix anything.

Any suggestions???

Thanks

 

[Ghostrider]

Is there anything built in to Windows XP that would allow me to attempt to
fix a bad floppy? A friend gave me a floppy disk and she is trying to get
some files off of it. I can get to some files but others seem to cause the
A drive to keep cycling without anything happening. I used to have some
luck with doing a scandisk but that is no longer available. I tried doing a
chkdsk at the command prompt but that seemed to give me the status of the
floppy and not really fix anything.

Any suggestions???

Thanks

Two other possibilities at offloading the files are
to use another floppy disk drive or the original disk
drive from which the files were copied.

 

[Stephen Larivee]

Two other possibilities at offloading the files are
to use another floppy disk drive or the original disk
drive from which the files were copied.

I will try some more floppy drives at work tomorrow. I have two computers
at home and so far, I have not had much luck. Going to the original
computer is no longer possible. A friend of mine has Norton System Works.
I am going to see if anything on that program will help.

In the past (when I had Win 98) I would try to do a defrag and/or a
scandisk. Sometimes it worked enough so I could get to the files. I like
the newer operating systems but sometimes I wish they had kept some of the
features of the old OS and moved them over to the new OS.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

XP doesn't have a built in process to fix floppies . Heck half the time it
can't even read good floppies. But check this out
http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/floppy_recovery.asp

 

[Stephen Larivee]

Thank you, Harry. I did download the program and it recovered almost all of
my files. It costs quite a bit for a small program, but I am sure it will
be worth it to have it available at work.

Thanks again.

XP doesn't have a built in process to fix floppies . Heck half the time it
can't even read good floppies. But check this out
http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/floppy_recovery.asp

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

Is there anything built in to Windows XP that would allow me to attempt
to
fix a bad floppy? A friend gave me a floppy disk and she is trying to get
some files off of it. I can get to some files but others seem to cause the
A drive to keep cycling without anything happening. I used to have some
luck with doing a scandisk but that is no longer available. I tried
doing a
chkdsk at the command prompt but that seemed to give me the status of the
floppy and not really fix anything.

Any suggestions???

Thanks