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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / General Topics / December 2006Duff Floppy
I think my other half inadvertently removed a floppy from the 'A' drive before the light went out and now we cannot access it. Is there any software or means out there whereby we can recover the data on it. Thanks Alan > I think my other half inadvertently removed a floppy from the 'A' drive > before the light went out and now we cannot access it. Is there any software > or means out there whereby we can recover the data on it. About 20 years ago there were MS-DOS utilities to copy 5-inch floppies, errors and all. This allowed us to recover data by manipulating the duplicate, leaving the source disk intact. These utilities went out of use as Win95 came to dominate the market, but might have been saved for historical purposes. Univ. of Marburg (Germany) used to house one such archive.  SignatureDon Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=floppy+disk+data+recovery Ben > I think my other half inadvertently removed a floppy from the 'A' drive > before the light went out and now we cannot access it. Is there any software > or means out there whereby we can recover the data on it. > Thanks > Alan Thanks for your help. I have tried a number of alternatives and most of them say the floppy has nothing on it, which is even more strange as it was full. Never mind. Alan http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=floppy+disk+data+recovery Ben > I think my other half inadvertently removed a floppy from the 'A' drive > before the light went out and now we cannot access it. Is there any software > or means out there whereby we can recover the data on it. > Thanks > Alan On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:16:36 -0000, "Alan" <alanguard2004-email@btinternet.com> put finger to keyboard and composed: >Thanks for your help. I have tried a number of alternatives and most of them >say the floppy has nothing on it, which is even more strange as it was full. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> Thanks >> Alan You can use the following procedure, from a DOS prompt, to dump the first sector of the root directory. debug -L 100 0 12 1 -D 100 2ff -Q If your data is not sensitive, I would be happy to help you recover it ... if you could send me an image of your diskette. Otherwise I suggest you find a utility to image your diskette to a 1.44MB file on your hard disc and then use an editor to search for text strings, assuming your data are documents. One such utility is Diskcopy.exe which ships with FreeDOS: http://users.pandora.be/imre/FreeDOS/dkcp092x.zip The following command creates an image file named floppy.img: diskcopy a: floppy.img You could view this file with DOS Edit as follows: edit /r /64 floppy.img - Franc Zabkar SignaturePlease remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. >You can use the following procedure, from a DOS prompt, to dump the >first sector of the root directory. > > debug > -L 100 0 12 1 Sorry, that should have been ... -L 100 0 13 1 > -D 100 2ff > -Q - Franc Zabkar SignaturePlease remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. Might check this out [no personal recommendation extended]: Systech Software - rfd14.zip - http://www.come.to/ssoftware http://www.bestdiskrecovery.com/downloads/rfd14.exe RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk Version 1.4 - for 12-Bit and 16-Bit FAT file systems under DOS, WIN 3.1, WIN 3.11, WIN 95, WIN 95-OSR2, WIN 98(SE) SignatureMEB http://peoplescounsel.orgfree.com/ BLOG http://peoplescounsel.spaces.live.com/ Public Notice or the "real world" "Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happen." Winston Churchill Or to put it another way: Morpheus can offer you the two pills; but only you can choose whether you take the red pill or the blue one. _______________ | I think my other half inadvertently removed a floppy from the 'A' drive | before the light went out and now we cannot access it. Is there any software | or means out there whereby we can recover the data on it. | Thanks | Alan |
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