Floppy Drive trouble

[Bryan42]

hi
I copyed a multi-part SFX rar archive across two floppy disks MyDocs.exe on the first floppy and MyDocs.rar on the second,the problem is the first part MyDocs.exe won't copy back to my C: drive,it gets stuck with about 45% left to transfer the A: drive then starts to make alot of clicking sounds if i press cancel it doesn't stop so i have to manually eject the disk
The data on the disks is important and i would be very grateful for any help on retrieving it.

regards
Bryan

 

[jackschmittusa]

Sounds like a bad floppy disk. Have you just tried running the executible instead of copying?

 

[Looney]

Yeah, sounds like a bad floppy. If it wasn't rar i would say you might be able to use a Norton tool to recover it... but i'm not too sure you'll be able to uncompress the file if you recovered it while it's rar. Still, might be worth giving it a shot with some tool if you don't have access to the original files.

 

[Bryan42]

hi
I try'd to run it from the floppy aswell but it didn't open it just started making the same noises and i had to eject it ,Scandisk doesn't show errors either it's a major pain because this is my only backup of these docs i made and it accounts for months of work and i will be in dire straits if i can't retrieve them

Any other comments/suggestions are appreciated

regards
Bryan

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: Bryan42
hi
I try'd to run it from the floppy aswell but it didn't open it just started making the same noises and i had to eject it ,Scandisk doesn't show errors either it's a major pain because this is my only backup of these docs i made and it accounts for months of work and i will be in dire straits if i can't retrieve them

Any other comments/suggestions are appreciated

regards
Bryan

You might try looking online for people that specialize in recovering such things like this Disk Doctors. Like i said, if the stuff wasn't compressed, you could do it yourself, although there might be some garbled text here and there... but at least you'll recover the vast majority of it. Do you have Norton Systemworks or Norton Utilities? That has Norton Diskdoctor that you can try to recover it yourself... though since it's compressed, it might not uncompress successfully.