Re: Disk needs to be formatted

From: Jean-Guy Marcil (no-spam_at_leaveme.alone)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:22:43 -0500

Sorry Christine,

In my experience, unless you have a backup somewhere, you can kiss your
story goodbye! Your floppy is now corrupt.
I think there are some retrieval tools that are still around... (not many
people use floppies anymore), maybe someone will suggest one. Even so,
chances are pretty dim.

Floppies can easily get corrupted, this is why, as you have just discovered,
it is a very bad idea to use them as storage. I only use them (rarely) when
transporting stuff, never as storage. Even so, I usually use CD-R... even if
I do not need 600 Mb, they are so cheap and way more reliable than floppies.
In fact, if you buy a computer tomorrow, chances are that there will not
even be a floppy drive on it unless you ask for it. 

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Cheers!
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Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
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"Christine" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de
news: 221AC003-F9DF-46DB-9F45-FB040BB092D0@microsoft.com...
> I've been having a problem with my disks lately (they're old--1.44 mb).  I
went to access a story on one and it told me I couldn't access the A drive
and that the disk needs to be formatted.  What does this mean and how can I
fix it?  Is the information on the disk retrievable?  Help!!!!

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