old excel 95 file will not open in Office 2000

[Guest]

We upgraded Office from 95 to 2000 on windows 98(?) I have one file on a Diskette that will not open. It indicates that it is either a read-only location(which it is not) or the server on which it is stored is not responding. All other excel documents on the disk will open. Any hope of recovering this one file?

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Hi Joleen

Please never never never never never open files from a Floppy.
I think you lost the file.

Always copy to your hard disk first
open it from there and work with it and save it
copy back to floppy

Microsoft barely acknowledge this in a hard to locate tip:
Secret #28
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/support/Excel/Content/CoolTips/cool.asp#E10E28

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Regards Ron de Bruin
(Win XP Pro SP-1 XL2000-2003)

We upgraded Office from 95 to 2000 on windows 98(?) I have one file on a Diskette that will not open. It indicates that it is

either a read-only location(which it is not) or the server on which it is stored is not responding. All other excel documents on
the disk will open. Any hope of recovering this one file?

 

[Ken Wright]

Given that though, I'm more than happy to try it for you in 2002 / 2003 /
OprnOffice to see if either of them can recover it using their repair options.
These are not options available in 2000. You'd need to take the NOSPAM bit out
of my email address.

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Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

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Hi Joleen

Please never never never never never open files from a Floppy.
I think you lost the file.

Always copy to your hard disk first
open it from there and work with it and save it
copy back to floppy

Microsoft barely acknowledge this in a hard to locate tip:
Secret #28
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/support/Excel/Content/CoolTips/cool.asp#E10E28

Diskette that will not open. It indicates that it is

either a read-only location(which it is not) or the server on which it is

stored is not responding. All other excel documents on

 

[Norman Hinds]

Try 'www.fdrlab.com' (http://www.fdrlab.com/repair.html)
They can recover corrupt workbooks with all contained information
including comments, VBA, charts, links etc.

Good luck