URGENT - SAVED ON DOS FORMATTED DISC!!

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Recently I posted a question regarding not being able to retrieve a document
I saved to a floppy from another computer. I have since realized that I saved
my doc on a DOS formatted disc. Is there any way to retrieve this information?
danielle
 
Danielle said:
Recently I posted a question regarding not being able to retrieve a document
I saved to a floppy from another computer. I have since realized that I saved
my doc on a DOS formatted disc. Is there any way to retrieve this information?
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There is one possibility. Diskettes formatted on old versions of
Windows, and *especially* ones sold 'pre-formatted' leave out a 'media
descriptor byte'. Older windows doees not mind: XP does. The only way
out of that is to format one in XP (My Computer - right click the A:
drive icon; Format) and take it to an older machine that can read your
problem one, and copy the data files across (do *not* use Disk Copy)
 
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Danielle said:
Recently I posted a question regarding not being able to
retrieve a
document I saved to a floppy from another computer. I have
since
realized that I saved my doc on a DOS formatted disc. Is there
any
way to retrieve this information?
Click to expand...


Your DOS formatted disk is the only kind Windows XP can read, and
isn't your problem.

Try this. Format a blank diskette on Windows XP, take that
diskette to the other computer and copy the file you want onto
it. You should then be able to read the diskette.
 
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