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More info?)
Depends how badly you need the data, An app that enables you to read the
sectors 'may' enable recovery
"Ken" <Ken@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:89BCD84E-2FDF-4165-A381-B51E5CC888EF@microsoft.com...
> Have tried on creating computer with no success, but not on Win98
computer.
> Last time floppy was used, I opened up contents, made changes to files,
> printed from contained files, and saved changes again. No other error
> messages received, but still now I am unable to read the disk.
> --
> Ken
>
>
> "Richard Urban [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > Formatting destroys all data on the floppy, but there is no data there
now
> > anyway. Have you tried reading the disk on a Win98 computer, or the
computer
> > that created it?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard Urban
> > Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> >
> > Quote from: George Ankner
> > "If you knew as much as you thought you know,
> > You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
> >
> > "Ken" <Ken@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:581A574E-3359-4802-8542-923FFF6DCE71@microsoft.com...
> > >I am unable to retrieve data from previously readable floppy disk.
> > >Message
> > > comes up that disk needs to be formatted. Have tried this floppy on
other
> > > PCs with similar results. Will I be able to retrieve data once disk
is
> > > formatted, or will data be lost?
> > > --
> > > Ken
> >
> >
> >
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