Floppy Drive Recovery

[Kained]

Any ideas on how to get data from a dead floppy disk, my machine tells me windows wants to format it yet i keep instructing windows to **** ***, i have had a look in command prompt and can see the data iam sure there are some good programs for free out there that will do the job i just find the dodgey shareware ones

so any suggestions would be gratefully recieved

[pooley]

my computer>right click a: and choose tools, check for & fix errors

[beeswax]

you may find this useful

[Kained]

scandisk checking errors dies and closes the window its self i will give flopshow a try

[leon]

I use a program called Badcopy by Jufsoft

http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/

'Tis pretty good...

[ctbjs]

Likewise Leon, I have found this tool to be exceptionally good at recovering lost files from corrupted floppies. If all else fails with recovering filename it will recover the file but give it a file1.doc type name and you can sift through them to find the ones you want to recover afterwards. Cheap, cheerful and easy to use.

Chris

[leon]

Not that I get the chance to use it much these days. Alot of our floppy drives have god knows what stuck in them (*tsk* don't you love some pupils attitude to IT kit), and theres little call to swap them out as they never get used. Can't say I miss them ;-).

[Kained]

Cheers guys

flopshow worked a treat!

recovered all one was still corrupt but still the main one i wanted was there