Floppy Disk Recovery Utility

[Aaaaaaaa]

does anyone know of a good one?

Ive tried loads but only one has found files on the floppy : "Active@ Floppy Recovery"

Trouble is, I only have the trial version, whcih has the limitation that you can only recover files of about 32kb, since most of the files are 40kb +, no joy.

Does anyone know of any good recovery utilities?

It's not my floppy, its a friends, she has CW on it.

Cheers

 

[GeminiDomino]

does anyone know of a good one?

Ive tried loads but only one has found files on the floppy : "Active@ Floppy Recovery"

Trouble is, I only have the trial version, whcih has the limitation that you can only recover files of about 32kb, since most of the files are 40kb +, no joy.

Does anyone know of any good recovery utilities?

It's not my floppy, its a friends, she has CW on it.

Cheers

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If you have access to a linux box, you can try rescue_dd

 

[trooper]

Getdataback is a great recovery program and has saved me on quite a few occasions, Though it is not free.

The latest version (2.5 trial) of servant salamander has a great undelete option in the plugins menu, Its worth a try.

Servant salamander 2.5

Trooper

 

[lizard808uk]

I've had a lot of success with Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier. I believe this one is free and is for both Windows and Linux

 

[Fishbong]

What is CW?

 

[sam fisher]

Course Work.

 

[Aaaaaaaa]

Hey guys, thatnks for all the help, i was able to recover 1 out 10 pieces of CW

Thats all theyve got.

They had their compuyter formatted, not realising theyd lose their documents.... foolish.

 

[sam fisher]

Run a data recovery utility on the hard drive. Or take it to a data recovery expert.

 

[trooper]

Hey guys, thatnks for all the help, i was able to recover 1 out 10 pieces of CW

Thats all theyve got.

They had their compuyter formatted, not realising theyd lose their documents.... foolish.

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Which method/program was used in the end ?, Just for future reference.

Trooper

 

[Jarska333]

What museum did you get the floppy from? USB-stick for the win!

 

[Aaaaaaaa]

TRooper:

I used Active floppy recovery.

I was only able to rescue one cos it has 32kb file limit on the trial.

Th rest were corrupted anyhow

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

Personally I would have used Nortons Disk Doctor. I been using NDD for years, even in the days of the IBM XT and it's one of the best.

 

[yaustar]

I am surprised that people still use floppies for storing files..