Floppy Disk

[ANGIE PETTY]

Hi. I have put a floppy disk in disk drive with information stored on it and
when I have tried to access it a box comes up saying 'disk in drive not
formatted. Do you want to format it now'.
Click on no and it goes off.
Click on yes and it then tells me that 'Disk in drive A cannot be
formatted'.
Have I lost this informatin for good?

 

[Kevin]

Try it in a different computer. If you can't access the disk on a different
machine, you are probably out of luck.

 

[deebs]

Hi. I have put a floppy disk in disk drive with information stored on it and
when I have tried to access it a box comes up saying 'disk in drive not
formatted. Do you want to format it now'.
Click on no and it goes off.
Click on yes and it then tells me that 'Disk in drive A cannot be
formatted'.
Have I lost this informatin for good?

Angie: for mission critical data repeat the mantra:

one is none and two is one.

What it means is that stuff goes awry from time to time.

So if you have to place files on removable media that are really,
really, really, ... , really critical then copy to more than one bit of
removable media.

If it is any consolation I am sure we all get caught by this one (no
more than once though)

 

[Ted Zieglar]

"one is none and two is one"

A backup mantra if ever there was one. Well put.

 

[deebs]

"one is none and two is one"

A backup mantra if ever there was one. Well put.

<doffs cap>

thank you Ted - we all live through it at least once

</doffs cap>

 

[Michael Stevens]

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Hi. I have put a floppy disk in disk drive with information stored on
it and when I have tried to access it a box comes up saying 'disk in
drive not formatted. Do you want to format it now'.
Click on no and it goes off.
Click on yes and it then tells me that 'Disk in drive A cannot be
formatted'.
Have I lost this informatin for good?

XP has problems with reading from some floppy drives and disks. Try
extracting the data on another computer, then copy it to a CD, Pen Drive, or
other removable media compatible with your system. If the computer is
networked, access the data from a network shared folder.

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Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
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