FLOPPY help urgently needed

[Michael Carlos]

Time after time MS ruined my floppies, weeks of work. No,
nothing wrong with my computer because I don't have one.
I use only public computers from libraries to
Universities, and there are all professional people
taking care of them. Can anyone suggest how to recover my
important information from the floppy that suddenly
says, "It is not formatted" while it was formatted just
fine 100 times over when I worked on it? I would really
appreciate it. And please - type the subject line FLOPPY
in capital letters r I may delete it as usual spam. Thank
you

[Mike Kolitz]

Floppy Disk is Not Accessible, Not Formatted, or Not Recognized by Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;140060

--
Mike Kolitz MCSE 2000
MS-MVP - Windows Setup and Deployment


"Michael Carlos" > wrote in message
...
> Time after time MS ruined my floppies, weeks of work. No,
> nothing wrong with my computer because I don't have one.
> I use only public computers from libraries to
> Universities, and there are all professional people
> taking care of them. Can anyone suggest how to recover my
> important information from the floppy that suddenly
> says, "It is not formatted" while it was formatted just
> fine 100 times over when I worked on it? I would really
> appreciate it. And please - type the subject line FLOPPY
> in capital letters r I may delete it as usual spam. Thank
> you

[Lorne Smith]

If you don't own the computer that's having problems reading your disks,
there's nothing you can do about it. It's up to the public library to
perform any maintenance on their computers... Your best bet is to format a
floppy on their PC and only use that floppy in the same PC.

Different floppy drives frequently have a slighty different azimuth
alignment and there is no way to absolutely guarantee that a floppy
formatted and written on one PC will be usable on another... It's perhaps
one of the reasons floppys are used less and less these days... I mean, I
can buy a pack of 10 cdr's for less than I can a pack of 10 floppies!

Lorne

"Michael Carlos" > wrote in message
...
> Time after time MS ruined my floppies, weeks of work. No,
> nothing wrong with my computer because I don't have one.
> I use only public computers from libraries to
> Universities, and there are all professional people
> taking care of them. Can anyone suggest how to recover my
> important information from the floppy that suddenly
> says, "It is not formatted" while it was formatted just
> fine 100 times over when I worked on it? I would really
> appreciate it. And please - type the subject line FLOPPY
> in capital letters r I may delete it as usual spam. Thank
> you