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Reading an old floppy

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ArkAoss

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it's a 720k 3.5... should most drive's be able to read it? just maybe the OS can't handle reading it?

we kinda need the data off this stupid disk, have tried it in an old 386..
 
Yes, I would think that any 3.5 floppy drive would be able to read it. I can read and write to 720K floppies with WinME (although I have noted that I have to override to get one to format properly - default is always for 1.44M).

Is it possible that the disk has been used by and/or formatted by a Mac (or other Apple machine)? There used to be a program available that would read and write PC disks on a Mac (and vice versa, I believe - it ran on both platforms). IIRC, it had a couple of quirks in the way that it allowed Macs to write in PC mode - specifically, you did not want to format the thing on a Mac because it wouldn't generate the proper Track0 info.

Lady Niniane
 
Try booting that 386 from a DOS Diskette, go to a C: prompt and type
"dir a:"
and let us know what error you get.

If the Diskette drive hasn't been used for a while, you might also want to consider a cleaning diskette.

Good Luck!
 
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