URGENT - SAVED ON DOS FORMATTED DISC!!

[Guest]

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

 

[Jerry]

XP can read DOS formatted floppies with no problems.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

You might find the info here at Plato's site useful
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootlist/136.htm#3 He has a download here that might
help http://www.bootdisk.com/kelly/xpflopdr.zip

 

[Alex Nichol]

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?

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)

 

[Ken Blake]

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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?

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.