strange problem

[Nutty]

Hi,

If I don't have the correct Newsgroup for this problem please let me know
where to look for this following advice.

I'm having a strange problem. I have a floppy disk on which I keep my
addresses. I also have other spreadsheets on the same floppy disk. The
other spreadsheets are all opening just fine but when I go to open my
addresses spreadsheet I get this error reading.
EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in
module EXCEL.EXE at 017f:300d6c1f.
Registers:
EAX=000000e0 CS=017f EIP=300d6c1f EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=0062bda8 EBP=0062c64c
ECX=0000c0c0 DS=0187 ESI=0062c670 FS=50df
EDX=00000006 ES=0187 EDI=00000014 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
0f b6 9c 0d 68 f9 ff ff 80 fb ff 0f 84 1a 82 0d
Stack dump:
00000000 0062eef4 00000000 005f0031 002a0028 00230020 0023002c 00300023
0030002e 005f0030 00220029 0028005f 0020002a 0028005c 002c0023 00230023

What can I do? This spreadsheet is 5 pages and I would miss it terribly.

Thanks in advance,
Nutty

 

[Beege]

Nutty,
One should never open documents and spreadsheets directly from floppies.
Copy to hard drive, open from there. Modify and move back onto floppy...

Beege

 

[Bernard Liengme]

In case it is unclear, Beege's (correct) advice is
One should never open documents and spreadsheets directly from floppies.
Copy to hard drive, open from there. Modify AND SAVE THEN move back onto
floppy USING EXPLORER

 

[Ken Wright]

Excel 2002 onwards has a Repair facility built in - Try it.

If no joy then feel free to send me a copy of your file, with a copy of this
note and i will try and recover it for you. You need to take the NOSPAM bit
out of my email address though.

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

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It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission
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[Nutty]

Thanks Bernard and Beege but that is not the solution. I tried it. I get a
similar error reading although the numbers are slightly different. The
thing that stumps me is that I can still open the other Excel files on that
floppy when transferred to my hard drive, too, but not the addresses file
that I need so badly.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Nutty

 

[Nutty]

I am using Excel 97. I guess I can just start from scratch. I have other
versions that have far fewer addresses on them but can take it from there.
I had never heard of copying the file to the hard drive first. Been doing
this wrong for years. Goes to show there is always something more to learn.
Thanks,
Nutty

 

[Ken Wright]

You should never write directly to removable media - This is documented by
Microsoft also. It has nothing to do with how many addresses you have.

Excel 97 does not have any repair facility, so offer stands if you want me
to try and repair it for you.

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

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It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission
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[Nutty]

Thanks for the generous offer but I am sure family and friends would not
appreciate my handing out all their addresses. So I'll have to bite the
bullet and just do a lot of reentry. It's not so bad and now I have learned
not to save directly to floppy, too. Funny thing is that a lot of programs
such as Money, FTW, etc. all have the saves going directly to the floppy as
well.
Thanks,
Nutty

 

[Ken Wright]

No problem - One other option might be to download the free office suite
OpenOffice from www.openoffice.org

Its a 70MB download, but the spreadsheet component OpenOffice.Calc is really
good at fixing corrupt Excel files that even Excel can't.

Regards
Ken....................

 

[Gary Smith]

Office programs differ from many other applications in the way they handle
writing and saving files. What works fine for other programs doesn't
always work well with them. Even though other programs may be able to
save directly to floppy without problems, I almost always save to my hard
drive and then copy the file to a floppy. Two copies are much better than
one.

 

[Nutty]

Funny thing is I have always saved directly to the floppy with no problems.
What "corrupts" a file anyway? Does this mean I could've gotten a virus?

Thanks,
Nutty

 

[Bill Sharpe]

Funny thing is I have always saved directly to the floppy with no problems.
What "corrupts" a file anyway? Does this mean I could've gotten a virus?

Thanks,
Nutty

Office programs differ from many other applications in the way they handle
writing and saving files. What works fine for other programs doesn't
always work well with them. Even though other programs may be able to
save directly to floppy without problems, I almost always save to my hard
drive and then copy the file to a floppy. Two copies are much better than
one.



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open my
Probably not a virus. Floppies are just not as reliable as hard disks.
Once the XLS file on the floppy disk has become corrupted copying it
back to the hard disk won't help.

Of course with my first computer in 1983 the ONLY choice was to save
files to a floppy disk. That was long before Excel.

The Office.org suggestion may be well worth following.

Bill

 

[Nutty]

Thanks for the advice. I appreciate all the help from this wonderful
Newsgroup.
Nutty