What free software can I use to salvage a floppy?

[NeoPTLD]

I was saving something in Excel onto a floppy disk and it froze up. The floppy disk became unreadable after the incident and everytime I try to access it, it tells me the disk is not formatted.

Can someone recommend me a software I can use to salvage the content of the disk that I can download for free?

Thanks

 

[PCTweaker5]

Buy one of those duster cans and take the floppy drive out and dust the heck out of it. That should work as I purchased a new floppy drive only to find out the my broken one was just dirty but it was only $10 so it was a nice addition to my PC.

 

[NeoPTLD]

Originally posted by: PCTweaker5
Buy one of those duster cans and take the floppy drive out and dust the heck out of it. That should work as I purchased a new floppy drive only to find out the my broken one was just dirty but it was only $10 so it was a nice addition to my PC.

I'm at an university computer lab. Tried it on a few different work stations.

 

[John]

There are several data recovery programs that will find the deleted data for free, but you'll need to purchase the program to recover the files.

Lost & Found 1.06 (full version w/ keycode) was available for free before the company was sold, so you might try to google for it.

 

[duhh]

winimage will read by sector and give you whatever it comes up with. Your likely to have corruption becuase theres probably a trashed sector on the disk now

 

[NeoPTLD]

Update:

I got Lost&Found but it won't read the disk. It says fat sector is corrupted, boot sector ok. Even if it can read it, it won't read my NTFS partitions which are the only partitions I have available to copy to.

the disk is readable to an unknown extent when I boot the computer with Win98 boot diskette. I can do dir command on A: and it will list the files.

It will not read at all in Windows environment.