Re: Help to recovery floppy files

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On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:23:31 -0400, Nathan Gutman
<nzgutman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:24:11 -0400, Nathan Gutman
<nzgutman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Using WinXP SP2. I have a .DOC file on a floppy disk that somehow got
corrupted and can not be accessed. I get the error "disk not formatted".


Is this a diskette which had been created on another computer, pruning
an earlier version of Windows? If so, you are almost certainly running
into the media descriptor byte problem described here:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=140060

The solution is to format another diskette on your computer, then take
it and the original to a computer running Windows 9X, and copy the
original to the newly formatted one. You will then be able to read the
copied diskette on your computer.


Thank you, it worked! Also, I was amazed that I could see and open the
file on the floppy on a computer running Ubuntu.



You're welcome. Glad to help.

This used to be a fairly common problem, but these days, as we get
farther and farther from computers still running Windows 9x, and as
fewer and fewer computers even have floppy drives, we don't see it as
much as we used to.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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