I have a great deal of floppies(all kinds but mostly high density)that I made back in the days of Windows 95 and 98. They have sat untouched in a storage closet for years, but last month I needed to get some info off of one of them.
When I put it in floppy drive A (the one that came with computer) it causes an error immediately and it is hard to get around just repartitioning and/or formatting the floppy and just accepting the loss of the info that was originally put on it.
Then I had an idea and I installed, as floppy drive B, an exterior USB floppy drive that I had stored in the closet , and tried the floppies that wouldn’t open with A: again. Surprisingly, many of them worked. But there were still a bunch of them that didnt. The error in the case of B: is almost always: “The disc you have in drive B: is not formatted, would you like to format it now?”
My question is can anyone think of a way that I can recover the data on a couple of these floppies that won’t open in either of my floppy drives.
I have winXP formatted with ntfs, ASUS motherboard P4P8oo-E with Intel 865PE chipset. a Pentium four 3.06 gHZ processor with HP. Frontside bus is 800/533/400 mhz.