NEED HELP
 

I have a 3.5 diskette with some valuable information on it and it says I need to format the disk, I cannot access it...WHAT THE HELL?

Which OS are you running and which OS did you save info on?

currently windows XP an dI think I saaved it from win2k

this happened to me before, i had information from a disk i had from school....and came home with XP and tried getting it off...and wouldnt work right....i dunno if that helps....but try getting the info off with the same OS

ok WTF here is what I get from properties (and yes the disk is inserted)

[img]http://www.svsu.edu/~jpharmal/Images/untitled.JPG[/img]

If you've saved info on a disk from 98 or 95 or NT, it may not open on XP. I've had this happen to me before. If you saved it on 2000 however there shouldn't be a problem. Windows 98 and 95 use completely different file systems then XP and 2000, which translates to the floppy storage somehow. Its either this, or you saved a corrupted file on the disk and its run its course. Or you could have damaged the disk somehow. My guess though is that you saved the files on a Win98 machine. When Windows says "This disk must be formatted etc..." it may mean that it isn't seeing the file system its supposed to.

ok I used the computer downstairs (win2k) and I got most of the files except for the most important one which is a .zip...how can I open damaged zip files?

Make sure the file is on the disk by looking for it in DOS first. As far as recovering damaged files... I don't know much about it. I do know that there are free disk repair tools out there, I'm just not sure if they work or not.

thanks, well I founda utility it is called "PC Inspector File Recovery" and it is a German made product.... I "recovered" the .zip file (with some errors) and it gave me this message when I tried to open the zip file

[img]http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/fukked.jpg[/img]

I am just wondering if I can open it even if not all the info is there, or are all the documents trapped in the zip and I cannot retrieve them, it does not seem I can get around this error

try opening it with winrar or something other than winzip and see what happens.

[img]http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/gdamnerrors.jpg[/img]
here is the lovely error i get

thanks that did exactly the trick , im gonna have my mom send you chocolate chip cookies.

mmmmm cookies

ok fuck that disk didnt have what i was looking for hake: i hate myself

LOL that sucks man.

Old, what did you wind up doing to fix it?

well here are the steps

install this in the OS that the original file was put on the disk
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm


run the program accordingly, if it is a .zip file use winrar (this is just my case)

I tried running that program in XP which was not the original OS and it crashed every time. basically the disk lost its file allocation table so the files were not organised and couldn't be accessed properly so that program would be needed

now I gotta rewrite my fuckin resume again mad: mad: mad: mad:

That sucks, but good to know about that program. We have an issue with this up in our students lab on the 7th floor.

[quote="Old Reliable":cc0ab]ok fuck that disk didnt have what i was looking for hake: i hate myself[/quote:cc0ab]

what a kick in the nuts man, thats horrible oOo: