Restoring corrupted floppy disk data?

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:53 pm

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.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Tue May 01, 2007 6:22 am

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.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Tue May 01, 2007 6:53 am

Have you tried runn Scan Disk on it?

Or check disk?

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Tue May 01, 2007 10:10 am

Yes, I tried that. Disk check fails.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Tue May 01, 2007 10:21 am

try SpinRite

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

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:39 pm

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.

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Tue May 01, 2007 1:17 pm

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.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Tue May 01, 2007 2:58 pm

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