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re: stroppy floppy Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 5:03 pm Posted by Tom Swanson (5553 messages posted) If you can repair the disk so you can read from it, you can copy everything in one operation. If you can't open the disk you obviously can't copy it. Try chkdsk for checking th floppy. 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: stroppy floppy Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 6:41 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (7832 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: stroppy floppy Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 9:08 pm 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 > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: stroppy floppy Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 9:29 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (7832 messages posted) Yep they lost the page breaks, line spacing, indents and font setting but the text was unharmed I'm just glad they got the file back, it was a paper (3-5 pages) that they needed the original copy of the professor marked up the printed copy and the only original was on that floppy (I hope they leaned a lesson about backups) Mind you in a text file all that code at the top is filled with actual data rather than formatting code, so a text file would have lost data But better to get all or part of the text and redo the formatting than to retype the entire thing Regards, Adam Bradley On Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 9:08 pm, Tom Swanson wrote: >I've tried all kinds of copy but never thought this could work. Worth filing in my >black book of tech tricks. Thanks Adam > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: stroppy floppy Monday, September 27, 2004 at 11:41 am Posted by Bob (173 messages posted) Adam should that be diskcopy A: C: to copy to hard drive. The disk won't open. Thanks Tom your for input too I Have the following: NAV 2004/ ZoneAlarm Firewall/ Spybot S&D/ SpywareGuard/ SpywareBlaster/ Adaware SE/ Bazooka Spyware Scanner/ WinPatrol 8/ ALL Updated 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 > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: stroppy floppy Monday, September 27, 2004 at 12:39 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (7832 messages posted) It has to be A: A: (unless you have a seconded floppy as B: and most PCs don’t) Diskcopy is only for floppies it will not copy them to anything except another floppy Also The source and target disk must be of the same type, but all floppies you get now are 1.44M so that isn't a problem It will copy the data from the first (AKA source) disk then prompt you to insert a seconded one (AKA target) It may or may not work but it will not hurt to try Regards, Adam Bradley On Monday, September 27, 2004 at 11:41 am, Bob wrote: > > >Adam should that be diskcopy A: C: to copy to hard drive. The disk won't open. Thanks >Tom your for input too > > > >I Have the following: >NAV 2004/ >ZoneAlarm Firewall/ >Spybot S&D/ >SpywareGuard/ >SpywareBlaster/ >Adaware SE/ >Bazooka Spyware Scanner/ >WinPatrol 8/ >ALL Updated [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: stroppy floppy Monday, September 27, 2004 at 12:48 pm Posted by Bob (173 messages posted) Ok thanks I Have the following: NAV 2004/ ZoneAlarm Firewall/ Spybot S&D/ SpywareGuard/ SpywareBlaster/ Adaware SE/ Bazooka Spyware Scanner/ WinPatrol 8/ ALL Updated On Monday, September 27, 2004 at 12:39 pm, Adam Bradley wrote: >It has to be A: A: (unless you have a seconded floppy as B: and most PCs don’t) >Diskcopy is only for floppies it will not copy them to anything except another floppy >Also The source and target disk must be of the same type, but all floppies you get >now are 1.44M so that isn't a problem >It will copy the data from the first (AKA source) disk then prompt you to insert >a seconded one (AKA target) >It may or may not work but it will not hurt to try >Regards, Adam Bradley > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum