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Data recovery on floppy disk

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by hop228

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I have accidently created MSDOS v5.0 onto a floppy disk that contains some important files. Can I recovery those files, if so, how?

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by opatzg9

Was the dos5.0 created by formatting the disk? if you didn't create a recovery file, you're probably going to have problems. Norton utilities had an undelete and I believe dos 6.22 had an unerase, you could try and see if either of them see anything. good luck

by opatzg9

Then I'ld have to think the disk got formatted with the /u unconditional option and a /s to make it bootable meaning it erased everything and formatted without saving. I know there's hard disk data recovery available, I don't think there's floppy.Can you salvage the files from the pc itself? Otherwise I'ld think they're a lost cause.

by hop228

I downloaded and created the Dos bootable file from www.bootdisk.com. I have tried Norton SystemWorks and Ontrack DataRecovery, but it only finds the DOS bootable files, nothing else.

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