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by fgiffone

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Can anyone shed some light on floppy diskette data recovery?

Floppy disk presumed to be formatted in either FAT and/or FAT32 from Win9x OS. User has not accessed data for several months. User has since received updated computer and OS, Windows XP formatted w/FAT32 computer. Previously able to access data from the disk on a Win98 OS, upgraded from Win95 OS.

Opened 1 of 2 disks in question on a Win98 computer and copied contents to folder on network server. The other floppy would not open, even on Win98 computer.

Tried to open the floppy on a Win95 computer... no luck either!

It's possible the floppy is just no good.

Thoughts, comments, suggestions... are all WELCOME, please!

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by ann777

It's very possible (even probable) that that 3rd floppy is just no good.

Your WinXP computer should be able to access any floppy format (no matter it's format)... if the WinXP floppy drive is flaky.... I recommend that you replace it. It's heads could be misaligned and that can be why it will not read any floppies (except possibly it's own formatted floppies).

You could try Norton Utilities on the floppy and see if it can recover anything.

by ann777

"Your WinXP computer should be able to access any floppy format (no matter it's format)... "

no matter the fact that it is Windows XP and may be FAT32 or NTFS... it should still be able to access data on a floppy... aside from hardware problems (either the floppy or the drive).

by fgiffone

ok... here is the result... what does it mean?
C:\>chkdsk a:
The type of the file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.

thanks!
frank

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