[gui-talk] [nfbcs] new info DOS help needed RE: help with unreadable floppy

[Steve Jacobson]

Cindy,

At the command prompt, you can type

chkdsk /?

and you will get a screen full of the options with a brief description.  It looks to me that possibly the slash F or the slash r options might be what you need.  Possibly  
slash F should be tried first in case that fixes everything.

The format would be something like

chkdsk a: /f

where the letter a represents the drive letter.  

If this data is in a word document, it may be difficult to get everything reassembled.  You could end up with a lot of files with mnumeric names that you will have to 
piece together or examine with a text editor.  It would be great if Slash F works, but I am not real hopeful from what you have said.

If this data is vital data, there are sometimes computer repair services that specialize in data recovery.  Before you do anything at all, you might want to check locally 
to see what it would cost to see if your data could be recovered.  If you try something yourself, you could make it more difficult to salvage the data.  Only you can 
really make the call.  It's a balance between cost, time, and the importance of the data.

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:49:22 -0400, slerythema wrote:

>Okay, I used the command promt in windows Xp.  This virtual dos no
>longer supports recover on a volume drive.  It told me to use chkdsk.
>The good news is that it said the disk was okay and reported the number
>of files and folders on the disk and bytes and all that info.

>My next question is for anyone that remembers how to use dos.  It has
>been too long since I used it and I do not remember any commands that
>could possibly get the data off the disk onto my hard drive.  I tried
>"copy a:>e:/disk".  It said access denied.  Also if I tried to run dir
>it said redundancy cyclic error.

>Hopefully, someone will now be able to help me.

>Cindy

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org 
>> [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Schulz
>> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 10:47 PM
>> To: NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] help with unreadable floppy
>> 
>> 
>> hi,
>> 
>> in the old days, you could get a little extra life from a 
>> floppy by sliding 
>> the metal protector and lightly blowing any particles on the 
>> black part 
>> away.
>> Bryan
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <slerythema at insightbb.com>
>> To: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] help with unreadable floppy
>> 
>> 
>> > This is sometimes the case.  In my experience, if it is 
>> going to be read 
>> > by anything it is usually last computer it was read on.  I 
>> tried this and 
>> > it did not help.  There is only one other computer I have 
>> access to try 
>> > and I will do that before anything else.
>> >
>> > The information on this disk is very important and I 
>> dreaded having to use 
>> > it at school that one time.  This is why I do not use 
>> floppies at school 
>> > any more and why back them up regularly (even though I ruined that 
>> > opportunity this time <ouch> that was me kicking myself for 
>> erasing them).
>> >
>> > Cindy
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: Steve Jacobson <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
>> > Date: Monday, September 25, 2006 14:51
>> > Subject: Re: [nfbcs] help with unreadable floppy
>> > To: GUI-TALK List <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>, NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List 
>> > <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> >
>> >> Cindy,
>> >>
>> >> Before you do too much in terms of recovering, it is very common
>> >> for a floppy diskette to not be readable on some drives but
>> >> readable on others.  See if you can find
>> >> other drives to try it on before thinking you have to do some
>> >> other kind of recovery.  This is worth a try even it it
>> >> read all right on your current drive.
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:28:17 -0400, slerythema at insightbb.com wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >I am in desperate need of help.
>> >> >
>> >> >I have a 3 1/2 flopply that I used at school and now it is
>> >> unreadable.  Does anyone know of a way to retrieve the
>> >> data?  It is very important material.
>> >> >
>> >> >Part of it is my fault because I keep backups of my floppies in
>> >> case I use them at school but I have been preparing things to
>> >> back up since my computer was
>> >> reformatted and I thought the info on backups wasn't needed
>> >> anymore since I will have a new set of backups within a day or
>> >> two so unfortunately I have already erased
>> >> the cds that contained the information from this disk.
>> >> >
>> >> >I really, really hope someone can help me out.
>> >> >
>> >> >Cindy
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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