floppy disk

[kim]

Is there anyway to recover info from a corrupted floppy?
Iam using windows xp and this morning I had an important
file on my floppy but it says that it is corrupted. I
have tried it on several machines. The file is an excel
file.
..

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
one golden rule: NEVER use an Excel file directly from a floppy disk.
ALWAYS copy it first to your harddisk. This is the most common reason
for corrupted files

For your problem:
You may download OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org). It's a 60MB download
but OO seems to be able to recover corrupted Excel files better than
Excel

 

[Don Guillett]

Someone should have told you to NEVER try to open a file on a floppy. Save
to the HD first and open from there.

 

[David McRitchie]

Copy the file to the hard disk with XCOPY or other means,
and then put the diskette in a safe place.

Then try to access the file on your HD with Open Office as
Frank suggests. .

Floppy diskettes are removable, they could be removed
during writing an be corrupted. Never access removeable
files with Excel.

Floppy drives are unreliable compared to your HD.

Floppy drives don't have much space and Excel must have
enough space to work with two copies of the file on the diskette.

 

[kim]

I saved the file on a floppy because its on a work
computer.

 

[Norman Harker]

Hi Kim!

No harm in copying to a Floppy dis as long as you do it in Explorer
and not from within Excel.

Next time:
Close the file in Excel saving it to the hard drive of the work
computer
In Explorer find the file
Copy the file to the floppy disc
At home
In Explorer find the file on the floppy disc
Copy the file to your hard drive
Open Excel
Open the hard drive copy of the file.

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Regards
Norman Harker MVP (Excel)
Sydney, Australia
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