Don't Laugh.... Floppy 70 of 90 corrupt in backup

[kazeakuma]

*Sigh*
I have a client who for some unknown reason used floppies to back his data up. I think he just used Backup from within windows. Of course when he went to restore his data, surprise surprise, one was corrupt. I'm surprised he even got to 70. So anyway, all these disks are full and I can't think of any programs that will copy the data from one disk to another and recover bad sectors along the way. Can anyone help me here?

 

[AnthraX101]

Uh...damn. That realy does stink. It is going to be prety difficult to recover, because if I remember corectly it is compressed. If it is that important to him, try to get Spin Rite. From GRC.com

Otherwise, cut your losses.

AnthraX101

 

[kazeakuma]

hmm I'll take a look. I'm not particularly worried, it's his fault and if he'd asked us first we could have done an in house backup for him or recommended something else other than floppies.

I'll give it a shot

 

[HdwGuy]

You can try to run scandisk on it and repair the damage. In the past I have had about a 25 percent chance of repairing the disk. Not good but worth a shot.

 

[Shudder]

<< one was corrupt. I'm surprised he even got to 70 >>



haha My rate for floppies seems to be 1 out of 4 go bad. They're horrible. Do they even make floppies anymore or do companies just sift through trash and pull out the middles and resell them? Or sell surplus SD disks as HD or something, because no matter which brand I get they're crap.

Enough about my rant, good luck. Tell the client to invest in a burner next time

 

[kazeakuma]

hdwguy - the disks are full. so scandisk can't fix em. It can only do so if there is free space.

Shudder - my rate is about 1 in 10. But then I only use them when I absolutely have to. I think he's learnt his lesson now anyway