Um guys....weird disk problem..help

[Accipiter22]

Ok, so i have 2 standard 1.44 meg disks....one has my budget, specs for a couple computers I"m building, and some other random files. That's disk 1. Disk 2 has my resume, cover letter, and a database for all my past invoices for work, as well as a blank invoice form. Today I had to print off an invoice, so I put in disk 2, printed off the invoice and ejected the disk. I think put disk 1 in and made a quick adjustment in my budget that I wanted to do. I saved the budget file...I noticed that it went from 100k file size, to 99k....I closed out of everything...put disk 1 back in, and opened it....and for some reason it shows all the files from disk 2 as being on disk 1....I try using access to look on the disk for the database I need with past invoices....nothing there, it shows all the files from disk 2 on there. I figure I musta just mixed em up, so I put disk 2 back in, but nope it has all hte correct files on it....here's teh weird thing though, on both disks they both show my budget as being 99k big...despite the fact that I only saved the file once, and the ohter disk was in my book bag at the time...


so anyone have ANY clue how this happened? There's no way I accidentally cleared every file off the first disk and then copied and pasted all the files from the 2nd onto the 1st...what the hell just happened??

 

[Markbnj]

The disks may not have really changed. I have noticed in the last several years that floppy support has gotten a little cranky, in terms of Windows not faithfully reloading the directory structure when diskettes are changed. I would restart the system and then check the diskettes to see what is on them.

 

[Accipiter22]

already tried that ...i'm gonig to try them on a coworkers computer now....I've never seen anything like htis, at least after rebooting....just tried it on my coworkers computer...both disks read as identical...how is taht even possible? The disk with all my resume and stuff was back in my book bag when I saved my budget and stuff to disk 2....

 

[orangat]

The pc probably got mixed up with your floppies and wrote data on the wrong disk. Maybe one of the pins on the connector is damaged. I had that problem once and disk changes weren;t recognized.

 

[Accipiter22]

hmmmm...the weird thing is I just tried copying files back and forth on other disks and it worked fine, and the thing is, this computer is glacially slow and noisy as well when copying data from disks, it made no such sound, and the changes showed up instantly on the other disk, without any time to copy or paste or wahtever...not sure if that helps explain anything...but I'm rather perturbed

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

Sounds like a memory allocation issue or something. Weird.

 

[wpshooter]

I notice that in your original post you say "Today I had to print off an invoice, so I put in disk 2, printed off the invoice and ejected the disk."

Before you ejected the disk, did you close the file you that you had printed and did you close whatever program it was that you used to do the printing from ?

I know we have a lot of employees here at work, that think they can just insert and eject any type of meda at just any point that the urgent happens to hit them. FILES & PROGRAMS NEED TO BEEN CLOSED BEFORE THE MEDIA THAT IS BEING ACCESSED IS EJECTED OR DISMOUNTED.

 

[Accipiter22]

I've never seen a place with more random errors than the place I"m working at now. YOu walk away from something for 5 minutes, come back, it's gone, or stuff will work at night when you leave, you come in the next morning and it's broke. A few people here think it's haunted cause it used to be a funeral home in this building. I was skeptical at first, but I've never seen a place with this many bizarre problems. I'm just pissed because I had a log of jobs that I had applied for that I wanted to call back and now I don't remember if i have a backup of hte file on my hard drive at home....

 

[Accipiter22]

Originally posted by: wpshooter
I notice that in your original post you say "Today I had to print off an invoice, so I put in disk 2, printed off the invoice and ejected the disk."

Before you ejected the disk, did you close the file you that you had printed and did you close whatever program it was that you used to do the printing from ?

I know we have a lot of employees here at work, that think they can just insert and eject any type of meda at just any point that the urgent happens to hit them. FILES & PROGRAMS NEED TO BEEN CLOSED BEFORE THE MEDIA THAT IS BEING ACCESSED IS EJECTED OR DISMOUNTED.

yah everything was closed out, I'm pretty anal about that very point you made actually...I can't tell you how many times I"ve had to fix things at this office in particular because of that.



so what kind of recovery program could I maybe use to get the old files back?

 

[wpshooter]

In the old days (dos) there used to be utilities for fixing these types of problems on floppies, etc.

But in this day of fancy software, I believe all of that knowledge has alas been lost.

 

[birdpup]

Try accessing the floppy's directory from the command line.
dir a: