Opening a file on a floppy that the computer says is not formatted

[Lisa F]

I am trying to open a file on a floppy disc and am getting this message that
the disc has not been formatted. I have used this disc before, as near as
two weeks ago and it worked fine and now I cannot open it up. Any help would
be appreciated.

 

[Graham Mayor]

The disc is now corrupt.

Never ever read from, write to, or print from floppy with Word. These are
the most certain methods of ensuring document corruption.

ALWAYS 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 something from the disc with file recovery
software, but I wouldn't bank on it.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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[Rockingham500]

On Nov 21, 3:23 pm, Lisa F <[email protected] (donotspam)

wrote:
I am trying to open a file on a floppy disc and am getting this message that
the disc has not been formatted.  I have used this disc before, as nearas
two weeks ago and it worked fine and now I cannot open it up.  Any helpwould
be appreciated.

File Restore Professional with recover files from formatted floppy
disks. You can download it from here: www.pcrecovery.com