re: stroppy floppy Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 6:41 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Adam Bradley (7795 messages posted) Run "diskcopy A: A:" from the command prompt I once got some data from a floppy that could not be read in any way and chkdsk could fix The file in question was a word document and some parts were lost (mostly the formatting codes) It may not work but it is worth a try, BTW it may give a red error on some sector during the copy process Regards, Adam Bradley On Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 2:18 pm, Bob wrote: > >I have a floppy I can't open. Can I copy all the data to the hard drive in one go. >It is all text files in MS works > >I Have the following: >NAV 2004/ >ZoneAlarm Firewall/ >Spybot S&D/ >SpywareGuard/ >SpywareBlaster/ >Adaware SE/ >Bazooka Spyware Scanner/ >WinPatrol 8/ >ALL Updated Written in response to: stroppy floppy (Bob: Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 2:18 pm) Responses to this message: re: stroppy floppy (Tom Swanson: Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 9:08 pm) re: stroppy floppy (Bob: Monday, September 27, 2004 at 11:41 am) All messages in this thread [show all] stroppy floppy (Bob: Sun, Sep 26, 2004, 2:18 pm) re: stroppy floppy (Tom Swanson: Sun, Sep 26, 2004, 5:03 pm) re: stroppy floppy (Adam Bradley: Sun, Sep 26, 2004, 6:41 pm) re: stroppy floppy (Tom Swanson: Sun, Sep 26, 2004, 9:08 pm) re: stroppy floppy (Adam Bradley: Sun, Sep 26, 2004, 9:29 pm) re: stroppy floppy (Bob: Mon, Sep 27, 2004, 11:41 am) re: stroppy floppy (Adam Bradley: Mon, Sep 27, 2004, 12:39 pm) re: stroppy floppy (Bob: Mon, Sep 27, 2004, 12:48 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum