hi i need help with recovering some files from a disk that windows says is no longer formatted. i have found some sites that can do it, but i want to know if anyone knows of one that is FREE....or if not the best/cheapest. if i'm in the wrong place please let me know where i should be. ta.
Donald G . Davis 6 February 2005 20:24:07 [ permanent link ]
schurno111@yahoo.com.au writes:
hi i need help with recovering some files from a disk that windows says>is no longer formatted.>i have found some sites that can do it, but i want to know if anyone>knows of one that is FREE....or if not the best/cheapest.
Do an Internet search for RESQFLPY.EXE. It will copy the disk contents to an image file, then recopy that to a good disk. This will often allow file recovery. -- --Donald Davis
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Try several different floppy drives. They all have different head alignment and different RW characteristics. Boot a system with Linux (e.g. boot Knoppix from CD-ROM) and use dd to do a low level disk copy. Saving as much data as possible is your first priority. Use the physical floppy as little as possible.
hi i need help with recovering some files from a disk that windows says> is no longer formatted.> i have found some sites that can do it, but i want to know if anyone> knows of one that is FREE....or if not the best/cheapest.> if i'm in the wrong place please let me know where i should be.> ta.
ResQfloppy will let you make a clone of the bad floppy to not risk further damaging it. If you wish recover anything from a bad floppy, then shift the write-protection tab to the protected position, even when "only reading" the floppy. Especially, don't let aggressive utilities like Norton Disk Destroyer even close to it!
Best results are obtained under pure DOS, e.g. by restarting Win 9x to MS-DOS command prompt (not to confuse with the Windows DOS shell!) and working from the command prompt. Floppy drive access is done differently under DOS and Windows, with the latter doing it with its own API, and bare DOS by aid of BIOS interrupts. The latter (through BIOS) can read marginal sectors that the Windows API can't.
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