i need to access a disk that says it is no longer formatted

[Guest]

I recently tried to access information I had saved on a floppy disk, only to
find that it is now no longer formatted. How does this happen from one day to
the next? I had just used the information & the very next day I was unable to
open it. Can someone please help? Is there any way to retrieve that
information?

 

[Graham Mayor]

It happens because you have corrupted the disc by saving Word documents to
it - Never ever read from, write to, or print from floppy with Word. These
are the most certain methods of ensuring document corruption.

Copy to the hard disc and work on the document from there.

This is equally relevant to other removable media such as CDRW.

You *may* be able to recover the information using file/disc recovery
software.

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