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Anyway to restore a floppy disk?

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dcpsoguy

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Alright. Here's the deal.

I just had files on this floppy a day ago. But now, when I opened up this floppy, it says "The disk is not formatted. Would you like to format it now". It just spins, and you hear a noise, and then it keeps popping up this message.

Is there any way to restore a floppy disk?

Thanks.
 
Originally posted by: dcpsoguy
Alright. Here's the deal.

I just had files on this floppy a day ago. But now, when I opened up this floppy, it says "The disk is not formatted. Would you like to format it now". It just spins, and you hear a noise, and then it keeps popping up this message.

Is there any way to restore a floppy disk?

Thanks.
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I think you're screwed, unfortunately. You might try using Norton Utilities or something to repair the files, but floppy disks are so prone to going bad though. 🙁

Good luck!
 
I gave up on floppies long ago. Only used them to boot to upgrade BIOS or card firmware. Now I use a bootable CD so floppies are gone forever!!
 
Originally posted by: rbloedow
People still use floppies?!!?!!!?!!!!!!?!!?:Q :Q :Q :Q :Q :Q :Q :Q :Q
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are you one of those people who think paper is obsolete too?
 
I had that happen to me yesterday - I tried to use a program I have called "File Scavenger" which has saved my ass when I accidentally deleted 80GBs of movies, but alas, it couldn't save my floppy. I had the fuel injection map for my motorcycle on it as you can connect your PC to the FI box and tweak the map.
 
Floppies are very unreliable. Try having the FAT corrupt right in the middle of a BIOS flash. :Q
 
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