Bad floppy disk

[Isocene]

Does anyone know what to do when a floppy goes bad? Any other ways of pulling the data off of it if it cant be read by normal means?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Mike

 

[cchen]

There's no hope for a broken floppy disk

 

[RemyCanad]

There might be a strange company out there for a small fee of 1k they will try an recover the data but I would say its lost.

 

[DaveSimmons]

you can try to read it on several different drives. Older floppy drives can go out of alignment and write tracks slightly off from where they're supposed to, then reading on another drive is like a VCR with tracking problems.

Also some old DOS disk utilities could edit/copy individual sectors off a disk, but that might not help if the files are not plain text.

 

[apriest]

If it?s just a few bad sectors, I?ve had great luck with Norton Disk Doctor. You?ll have to find a copy of it under Win98 or DOS though; there really isn?t one for Win2K or XP that will do what I?m talking about. However, just the other day I was onsite with a customer and used the scandisk that WinXP has built in. I told it to ?Scan for and attempt recover of bad sectors? and much to my amazement I was able to copy the data off the disk afterward when I couldn?t before. I?ve never had great luck with scandisk in the past though, not like I have with NDD under Win9x or DOS.

 

[MWink]

YES THERE IS HOPE!!!

There is a wonderful little program out there called "Revive.exe". It has helped me recover a bunch of (previously thought hopeless) floppy disks. You can probably find it using a Google search. If you can't, send me an Email and I will send it to you.