FAT 3.5inch floppy....HELP!

[bound4h]

I have a 3.5" floppy disk that I believe is formatted using the FAT32 file system. I originally used it on an old computer (33Mhz, ya I know f'in old) and now I want to view it on my NFTS desktop computer. Is there a program or utility that I can use to salvage these files and view them on my desktop without reformatting my whole harddrive or the disk and losing the information?

When I insert the disk into my computer it says "This disk needs to be reformatted. Reformat now?"

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

 

[JMecc]

I think floppies are always FAT formatted. Windows can read FAT no problem; your disk might just be messed up. Since your floppy drive might also be messed up (since these are hardly ever used now), try the disk on someone else's computer too.

Jo

 

[evongugg]

Badcopy Pro has allowed me to recover files from many bad floppies.
Floppies are a bad media for storage. They can go bad real easy.

http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/

 

[captaincharisma]

the only OS that won't be able to read it is NT 4.0 and that is if the disk is formatted to FAT32

 

[Doughbuy]

Uh... no offense... but are you a time traveler from a decade ago...

Haven't seen a floppy diskette in the last 3 years at least, thought they all died off like the dinosaurs and Zip disks...

How about if you try it through DOS? Shrug...

 

[UAL3312]

i still use Floppy's but only for flashing the BIOS on my mobo and Video card, that's all they're good for. unless you wanna put porno's on them? no vid's of course :roll:

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

It was formatted using FAT12 if he came from the 33 MHz age.

In fact all MF2HD floppys should be formatted using FAT12.

Chances are the new FDD is not calibrated the same as your old FDD.

Try copying everything off the disk on your old PC, doing a "FORMAT A: /U" from DOS prompt on old PC on the disk, then copying the data back.

Also copy the data back to a 2nd fresh / new disk, using the same "FORMAT A: /U" from your old PC + old FDD.

Perhaps then on your new PC (with FDD calibrated slightly differently, thus the critical read/write issue) it might just be able to read the disk.

Failing this use DISKUTIL from Norton Utilities for DOS v8.0