Floppy disc 1

[onpnt]

This is out of the forum topic but I tried the recovery forum to a null response.

My Dell locked up while running a 3.5 floppy and last resort was manual shut down. Now the floppy has nothing when I read it in windows explorer. The work I had on there was todays work and the reason I was putting it in this computer was to back it up, which means no backup. anyone know how to recover.
ran it through DOS and the 88 files are there just can't figure out how to recover them.

Thanks everyone
I may not get it the 1st or 2nd time,
but how sweet that 15th time can be.

 

[Empeethree]

what os is your machine running? if it is 9X then try Recover4All.

when you say you can see the files in dos what extension do they have?



rob --------------------------------------
Trying is the first step to failure
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[onpnt]

Window XP home

files don't have extensions. I just an CHKDSK and it gave me total files found being the 88 saved earlier. That was teh oly way I could determine the exsistance still. tried RECOVER for file names but with no luck. I may not get it the 1st or 2nd time,
but how sweet that 15th time can be.

 

[onpnt]

Well, I recovered everything. In case this happens to anyone else here's what I did.

'ms prompt
A:CHKDSK
'this will read all readable text in all files exsisting.
'which seemingly created text files but still could not see them in explorer,,,,so
'in windows
Find/Files and Folders/ 'enter a file you know the name of
'to search for
here's the cool part, when the file is found it converts that text readable file AND all the others due to having to search all of them, into a notepad or .txt file so the computer can read it. bad thing is it names the files something like this
FILE0001

So you have to read all the code to see what they are. .doc and .xls files get messed up pretty bad but I haven't tried opening them in there respectable programs yet. The <TITLE> tag in the .htm files tell you what the file is so those are easy.

just thought I'd give the info incase this happens to my fellow programmers and designers. It's not a very pretty way of doing things procedure wise but it worked.

I may not get it the 1st or 2nd time,
but how sweet that 15th time can be.