Recovering Files From a Corrupt Floppy

[Preston]

For some unknown reason some people still use floppy disks...a member of staff has important files stored on a floppy which is now corrupt. any ideas on a decent recovery prog from buggered floppys would be great!

 

Gus

[ChrisC]

Flopshow:

 

http://paradiseprogramming.tripod.com/flopshow.html

 

Is easy, good, and FREE!!!

 

Chris

[Netman]

BadCopy Pro nearly always recovers stuff from floppies for me - it does cost about £25 though http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/ I then ceremonially destroy the disk in front of thier eyes and offer to sell them a usb memory stick! Usually works....

[Mintsoft]

I Use PC Inspector File Recovery by Convar

From Here Its free! ^_^

Works alright, but obviously it can't perform miracles

 

-Mint

[apeo]

Yeah we use flopshow too, sometimes I also use win98 scandisk to fix the data corruption.

[Preston]

thanks these have been very successful

[glensc]

Worth looking at the other tools mentioned, though also worth remembering that on a native XP install you can do CHKDSK /R from a command prompt.

 

I'd do DISKCOPY A: A: first just incase it destroys the original.

[Geoff]

the 'fixdisktable' command on Linux (part of the msdos/fat fs tools) fixes floppys up alright for me 99% of the time.

[russdev]

I found that using one of the bootable linux cds often gives you access to floppy drives..

 

russ

[apeo]

Worth looking at the other tools mentioned, though also worth remembering that on a native XP install you can do CHKDSK /R from a command prompt.

 

I'd do DISKCOPY A: A: first just incase it destroys the original.

 

This may just be me but ive found in the past that the scandisk for 2000/xp is not as good as the one in 98. This is particularly the case when the disk is pretty damaged (data that is).

[PsychoTech83]

Hey First post here,

 

BadCopy Pro is a brilliant program for recovering corrupt data from floppies, USB flash devices, hard disks etc....... It's free but I can't remember where I got it from, possibly tucows. A Google search should find it.

[plexer]

I use filerecovery pro.

 

Ben

[TechMonkey]

+1 for BadCopy. Loved it so much we actually bought a full copy of it. The free version has some restrictions.

[Mintsoft]

Worth looking at the other tools mentioned, though also worth remembering that on a native XP install you can do CHKDSK /R from a command prompt.

 

I'd do DISKCOPY A: A: first just incase it destroys the original.

 

This may just be me but ive found in the past that the scandisk for 2000/xp is not as good as the one in 98. This is particularly the case when the disk is pretty damaged (data that is).

I tend to find that windows 98 can read more disks than 2000/XP, seems a little more forgiving.

 

-Mint

[glensc]

I tend to find that windows 98 can read more disks than 2000/XP, seems a little more forgiving.

 

-Mint

 

Your probably right because Win9X can do direct hardware read/writes to hardware rather than have to go through a hardware abstraction layer like XP/2K does.

[Mintsoft]

I tend to find that windows 98 can read more disks than 2000/XP, seems a little more forgiving.

 

-Mint

 

Your probably right because Win9X can do direct hardware read/writes to hardware rather than have to go through a hardware abstraction layer like XP/2K does.

Yeah very true, I forgot about that. Although ironically I dont have File Recovery on the Windows 98 PC, only my other XP station. Used it today as it happens!