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Anyone know how to repair a floppy disk? I hate these things. An individual I was repairing a PC for today, had a lot of important files backed up on.... yep.... FLOPPY DISKS!


Of course, it takes 3 to make a single backup and 1 is almost always faulty. Takes a stroke of absolutely flawless, pure dumb luck that they all would work properly at a given time.

I highly doubt you can get it back. Most often the disk gets physically damaged when someone squeezes the disk which makes the cover touch the film.

Tell him to buy a USB drive/stick and back up his files that way.

Have you tried runn Scan Disk on it?

Or check disk?

Yes, I tried that. Disk check fails.

try SpinRite

It's used for HD recovery, but it might work for floppies.

You tried the disks in another drive?

Also, tell your customer to either splurge $20 on a 1GB flash drive, or invest in CD-R's.

Trust, me I told them that a long time ago. I'll try this proggy though. Thanks Duper. Honestly, I couldn't even believe that they had that kind of information stored on floppy disks. Totally baffled me. A 2 gig flash drive is like $20-$25 in town and I made a 40Gig external from an old HDD for less than that.

If SpinRite doesn't work, then \"GetDataBack\" will. Make sure you get the FAT32 version and not the NTFS flavour.