Recovering documents from a floppy...

[107606]

I have a floppy disc onto which I put my briefcase.

Now I thought, as one would, that I could copy from here and save the files on another computer. Through doing this the disc went all funny, and here we are with a disc that is not opening. Windows is asking me to format it, I dont want to do this as clearly I would then have no documents left.

I got BadCopy Pro which just froze on me. This is driving me mad... Why, since I have registered on here, have I had to use it more than I ever would have needed to in the past!?

Anyway, I need to get these documents off the floppy, please help!

[andsome]

I know that this is no consolation, but having had floppy's go funny in that past, I always duplicate them. You may consider this in the future. Best of luck in your quest to recover your info.

[107606]

Stored in my memory banks for future reference!

[Scarecrow Man]

http://www.floborecovery.dsoftscape.com/

http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

http://www.jufsoft.com/

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/13/2/13-2-131.shtml

Try those. Not all are free, but may give you a trial or something.

[Agent Smith]

I work for a college, so you can imagine how many students I see with dodgy floppy discs and no backup (especially near end of term time!). Strange as this may sound, but a simple diskcopy (diskcopy A: A:) on an old pc just running dos (a win98 boot disc will do) manages to cure around 50% of all the "broken" floppies.

Next step when that fails, is to simply try opening the files using notepad, again you will be amazed how much information can be got at this way (for word documents, all you need to do is copy and paste the text into a new document), and finally we use Norton Disk Doctor, again in dos. With the above methods, we get back over 90% of the students "lost" work.

Hope that info is of use. Mr. M.