Re: fixing a bad floppy

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From: Harry Ohrn (harry---_at_webtree.ca)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 23:00:15 -0600

XP doesn't have a built in process to fix floppies . Heck half the time it
can't even read good floppies. But check this out
http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/floppy_recovery.asp 

-- 
Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
"Stephen Larivee" <NOlariveeslSPAM@yahoo.PLEASEcom> wrote in message
news:wZqdnXq9vrGFpJTfRVn-sw@comcast.com...
> 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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