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Unable to open Excel file on floppy disk

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by rradzville

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When I try to open an Excel file on a floppy disk, an error message comes up. It says "Expense Report.xls cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the doc is stored on may notbe accessible". I tried several tricks from the MS Knowledge Base, but none worked. When I did a virus scan, it came up clean, but said there were compressed files scanned.

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by rabbit_runner

I am not certain what MS Knowledge Base Tricks you have tried. Questions...
1. can you copy the file to another drive? If so, then try to open from there.
2. If you cannot copy the file, then check the properties on the file, is it set to READ only, Hidden, System, or what? Remove any attributes to this file
3. Have you run an integrity check on the floppy disk? Norton has a utility that can run to check the integrity of the disk, the file and the way that the file is accessed on that disk. Perhaps you have a corrupt sector on that disk and it will not let you open or read the file.

Best of luck

by rradzville

I have tried to copy it to other drives. That didn't work. When I try to open the Properties of the file, the floppy spins forever, then kicks out an error message.

by gabutts

It sounds as though either the disk has corrupted sectors or it may be that the disk was pulled before it had completely copied to the disk.

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