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    Resolved [RESOLVED] Recovering corrupt floppy disk!!

    I have a floppy disk with some important data on. The person who owns it has made no backups and the disk is now corrupt.

    Does anyone know of a way to recover a corrupt floppy disk? - It is just asking to reformat at the moment
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    Re: Recovering corrupt floppy disk!!

    I'm not sure, but you might be able to run scandisk on floppies.
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    Re: Recovering corrupt floppy disk!!

    Also, a program called Hexplorer can read bytes from a disk, so you might be able to get something if you know the format of a floppy disk and of the file that were within it.

    http://www.sofotex.com/Hexplorer-download_L26421.html
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    Re: Recovering corrupt floppy disk!!

    I am very frsutrated. All the tools I have found so far will display the files but want me to pay them money to get them back. I have had a look at that hex thing but I can't make much sense of it.
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    Re: Recovering corrupt floppy disk!!

    Did you try Norton Disk Doctor? It used to be good at that sort of thing. You could zip the disk and send it to me.

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    Re: Recovering corrupt floppy disk!!

    After about six hours of searching I found a program called PC Inspector File Recovery which did the job of recovering the disk fine. Here's the link to the download if anyone is interested:

    http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm
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    Re: [RESOLVED] Recovering corrupt floppy disk!!

    Too bad I didnt see your thread earlier, but I use Winternals File Restore.
    It can recover files from formatted hds, deleted files, etc.

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