Re: Notepad file on floppy disk.

How else can I express it that your floppy disk is
damaged? The only chance you have to read your
file is to try it on some other machines - and it is a
slim chance. The noise your disk makes lasts longer
because Windows tries several times to read the
bad patch before giving up.

Throw it away!


"Rahul Singh" <rasingh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I get the following error when I open the file.

Cannot open the A:\notes\crypto.txt file

Make sure a disk is in the drive you specified

The floppy makes noise even while functioning
properly. The only difference is that the noise is
for a longer period because it is searching for
the file.

Thanks.
--
Rahul Singh


"Rahul Singh" wrote:

How can I execute scandisk? Thanks.
--
Rahul Singh


"sali" wrote:

if you desperately need that file [and it is large enough], try copy
from
cmd prompt.
copy from floppy [drive letter a:] to hard disk [drive letter c:]
if part of file is unreadable, cmd prompt copy may offer you to skip
damaged
part and copy the rest.
if your file is long, missing cluster [1000chars] and restoring the
rest,
may be reasonable compromise.
as a last resort, try scandisk [it is a part of win98], maybe it may
restore
even lost cluster, in case cluster is not completely damaged
[cluster is a volume unit on disk, if just one cluster damaged, usualy
system refuses to read the rest]

from the past century, when floppy were widely used, there are tools
to
recover data from damaged discs. but again, try this only if file is
realy
important.
in most cases it is easier to re-type text file from printout than
waste
time trying to recover damaged floppy!


"Rahul Singh" <rasingh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I can access the remainingr files on the floppy.

When I click on this file, there is lot of noise
reading the floppy. After a while, the noise stops.

--
Rahul Singh


"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:


"Rahul Singh" <rasingh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I saved a txt file using notepad. Now I get the
name of the file, its size and time it was saved.
However, it can not read the file.

Please help!!
--
Rahul Singh
rasingh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Maybe the floppy disk is unreadable. We can't
really tell you unless you report the exact error
message you see when opening the file. Note
that floppy disks are notorious for failing. Use
a flash disk instead!








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