Rescue MSDOS broken floppy disk?
My friend saved her 4000 word essay to a floppy disk, MSDOS.
:oops: When she went to open it Win told her disk was not formatted,
"would she like to format it now", she coose yes! :( Does anyone have any suggestions if Knoppix can rescue the data from the disk? I guess Norton is not the answer if it could not be recognised. Does Knoppix have a suitable disk editor/viewer that would work. Thanks in advance. Jimmy
Re: Rescue MSDOS broken floppy disk?
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Originally Posted by iconfly
My friend saved her 4000 word essay to a floppy disk, MSDOS.
:oops: When she went to open it Win told her disk was not formatted,
"would she like to format it now", she coose yes! :( Does anyone have any suggestions if Knoppix can rescue the data from the disk? I guess Norton is not the answer if it could not be recognised. Does Knoppix have a suitable disk editor/viewer that would work. Thanks in advance. Jimmy
SpinRite might do it. See if somebody owns a copy (some unis do). It's a kind of wierd disk scan program. Some people say the 'detect disk failure before it happens' hypothesis is just nonsense. On the other hand, even if it doesn't detect beforehand, his programs reads the defective sector a lot (1000 times according to the docs) before saying it has recovered all data, so I think it could indeed do wonders. I've never had the change to test it.
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Thanks to you both, I am afraid the floppy was beyond rescue, she had to retype her essay! Live and learn.
But indeed, 4000 words aren't that much to retype. :-P