can't use floppydisk after being used on a "defective" drive

[Vigilant]

I accidentaly plugged the floppy drive bus cable the wrong way (so that the floppy drive led is on all the time...), and oviously it didn't work. But I tried to open some documents on a couple of floppydisks before I turned it the right way... That I should have never have done. Because now the disks suddenly are not formated. When I insert the disks in a working floppy drive it says they are not formated and need to be formated. And I do not want to format the disks.

I have experienced that by inserting a test disk in the "defective" drive and trying in a working one and choosing; "yes, I want to format" (something like that anyway), it works just fine afterwards.

Is there a way I can access my documents on these "broken" floppydisks?

 

[drdebit]

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I'd found and posted a couple of links in that thread. As I said there I know nothing about either of these products.
Maybe you'll get another answer here, you could also try asking there if that poster has found any solutions.

 

[rich110]

Vigilant

Have you ever try using NDD (norton disk doctor) which is a very old disk rescusing software. It has to be in dos mode. I just recover my friends file from his trashed floppy, but no guarentee. No harm trying, the flops are gone already, right?