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re: stroppy floppy
Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 9:08 pm
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Posted by Tom Swanson (5553 messages posted)


I've tried all kinds of copy but never thought this could work. Worth filing in my 
black book of tech tricks. Thanks Adam






On Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 6:41 pm, Adam Bradley wrote:
>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
>
>



Written in response to:
re: stroppy floppy (Adam Bradley: Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 6:41 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: stroppy floppy (Adam Bradley: Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 9:29 pm)

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)
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