Repairing floppy?

[Ness]

I have a sony Mavica.. the ones that use floppy disks as storage media, and I took some pictures with it of a party.

I got home and went to save the pictures to my computer and the disk apparently has a big fat error or something. It's slow to open and the camera is saying there is an error on the disk, too. Whenever I try to open the files on the disk, it says it is not formatted.

Obviously, I want to keep what is on there, but it won't let me save them. Is there anything I can do?

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

There is a reason we do not use floppy disks anymore.

As for saving it, there is ways you can get a lil info off it, but usually it is up in the big floppy disk heaven, especially with FAT errors.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: Monel Funkawitz
There is a reason we do not use floppy disks anymore.

As for saving it, there is ways you can get a lil info off it, but usually it is up in the big floppy disk heaven, especially with FAT errors.

mavica = horrible
how can you take pics on 1.44mb of storage? im usually run out on my 128mb cf card

 

[Ness]

Thanks for the help, halik. I'll buy a time machine and go back to 3 years ago when I bought the camera and tell myself not to. That will fix the problem. Thanks!

 

[boyRacer]

Yeah... floppy disks seem to crap out on me for no reason even if i took care of them.

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

You can use specialty utilities, or try a scandisk. 10 to 1 both FAT records are lost, so unless you take it to a specialty data recovery place, your disk is tits up.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: ness1469
Thanks for the help, halik. I'll buy a time machine and go back to 3 years ago when I bought the camera and tell myself not to. That will fix the problem. Thanks!

youre welcome... you might wanna check out the Delorean thread in OT for some time machine info...

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: ness1469
Thanks for the help, halik. I'll buy a time machine and go back to 3 years ago when I bought the camera and tell myself not to. That will fix the problem. Thanks!

thats so stupid...i bet you cant do it at all!!

 

[Bryophyte]

If you broke your floppy, it will probably take a good surgeon to repair it. OH, A CAMERA. Got it.

Our Mavica uses mini-cds.

 

[Ness]

Thanks for all the "help" guys. :-\


I found a utility called "Bad Copy" that recovered each and every file on the disk.


Then I promptly urinated on the disk to show my displeasure with it.

Okay, that was a lie. It felt good saying it though.

 

[0roo0roo]

floppies losing data? thats not new at all. floppies are unreliable. as for how it gets any usable space off a floppy, i guess it compresses the heck out of the pics

 

[Cat13]

Whats a floppy?

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: Cat13
Whats a floppy?

LoL

That MavicaFD was an awesome idea when VGA was the high resolution. Now though... I'm amazed they're STILL selling for a coupla hundred bucks!

My bro in law has 2 MavicaCD's ... The old 2.1 MP model and the new 5 MP model. He loves both of 'em. THey are pretty cool cams...

<---still wanting a high res digicam or DV camcorder.