floppy disk error recovery

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hi i need help with recovering some files from a disk that windows says
is no longer formatted.
i have found some sites that can do it, but i want to know if anyone
knows of one that is FREE....or if not the best/cheapest.
if i'm in the wrong place please let me know where i should be.
ta.
 
hi i need help with recovering some files from a disk that windows says
is no longer formatted.
i have found some sites that can do it, but i want to know if anyone
knows of one that is FREE....or if not the best/cheapest.
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Do an Internet search for RESQFLPY.EXE. It will copy the disk
contents to an image file, then recopy that to a good disk. This will
often allow file recovery.
 
Try several different floppy drives. They all have different head
alignment and different RW characteristics.
Boot a system with Linux (e.g. boot Knoppix from CD-ROM) and use dd to
do a low level disk copy. Saving as much data as possible is your first
priority. Use the physical floppy as little as possible.
 
hi i need help with recovering some files from a disk that windows says
is no longer formatted.
i have found some sites that can do it, but i want to know if anyone
knows of one that is FREE....or if not the best/cheapest.
if i'm in the wrong place please let me know where i should be.
ta.
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Get ResQfloppy from www.resq.co.il/iv_tools.php#Resqfloppy and read the help
file (Resqflpy.txt) contained in the self-extract package.

ResQfloppy will let you make a clone of the bad floppy to not risk further
damaging it. If you wish recover anything from a bad floppy, then shift the
write-protection tab to the protected position, even when "only reading" the
floppy. Especially, don't let aggressive utilities like Norton Disk Destroyer
even close to it!

Best results are obtained under pure DOS, e.g. by restarting Win 9x to MS-DOS
command prompt (not to confuse with the Windows DOS shell!) and working from the
command prompt. Floppy drive access is done differently under DOS and Windows,
with the latter doing it with its own API, and bare DOS by aid of BIOS
interrupts. The latter (through BIOS) can read marginal sectors that the
Windows API can't.

Regards, Zvi
 
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