fixing a bad floppy

From: Stephen Larivee (NOlariveeslSPAM_at_yahoo.PLEASEcom)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:11:35 -0500

Is there anything built in to Windows XP that would allow me to attempt to
fix a bad floppy? A friend gave me a floppy disk and she is trying to get
some files off of it. I can get to some files but others seem to cause the
A drive to keep cycling without anything happening. I used to have some
luck with doing a scandisk but that is no longer available. I tried doing a
chkdsk at the command prompt but that seemed to give me the status of the
floppy and not really fix anything.

Any suggestions???

Thanks

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