Corrupted 3.5" floppy...?

Factual Questions
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I know that subject line sounds a bit funny, but…

I have a corrupted 3.5" floppy disk that has some pics on it that I need access to. Is there any possible way to retreive this info? Or am I pretty much S.O.L.?

Gracias.

2

You still use floppies?
There are programs that can recover corrupted data. Try BadCopy. If that doesn’t work, you can try to find a data recovery specialist in your area. Around here, they charge $75 for a floppy, but YMMV.

3

Try reading it in someone else’s machine - floppy disks are notoriously prone to reading OK in one machine and failiang in another - something to do with the alignment of tracks, I think.

4

Not very often, for this very reason. But it was all I had at that moment.

Thanks, y’all!

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I second Mangetout’s suggestion. I see this every day at the library I work at. Someone will come in and use a disk in one of our machines (which run W2K Pro, by the way), then the very next day the disk will come up with an error message. If I put the disk in a W98 machine I can recover all or most of what was on it. This seems to happen more and more lately and I’m not sure why. It seems that they just aren’t making disks like they used to.

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“Thirding” Mangetout’s suggestion. I recently went through more than 500 floppies of old data at work, and was able to read every one of them - by using 4 different computers. If it didn’t work on one, I’d try the other, than another, and eventually I got them all to be readable. I can’t say it will work every time, but it works an amazingly large amount of the time, certainly.