Re: fixing a bad floppy

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From: Stephen Larivee (NOlariveeslSPAM_at_yahoo.PLEASEcom)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:47:13 -0500

"Ghostrider" <-00-@fitron.142> wrote in message
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>
> Stephen Larivee wrote:
>> 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
>
> Two other possibilities at offloading the files are
> to use another floppy disk drive or the original disk
> drive from which the files were copied.
>

I will try some more floppy drives at work tomorrow. I have two computers
at home and so far, I have not had much luck. Going to the original
computer is no longer possible. A friend of mine has Norton System Works.
I am going to see if anything on that program will help.

In the past (when I had Win 98) I would try to do a defrag and/or a
scandisk. Sometimes it worked enough so I could get to the files. I like
the newer operating systems but sometimes I wish they had kept some of the
features of the old OS and moved them over to the new OS.

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