[Old Reliable]

I have a 3.5 diskette with some valuable information on it and it says I need to format the disk, I cannot access it...WHAT THE HELL?

[Bleuachdu]

Which OS are you running and which OS did you save info on?

[Old Reliable]

currently windows XP an dI think I saaved it from win2k

[guarnere]

this happened to me before, i had information from a disk i had from school....and came home with XP and tried getting it off...and wouldnt work right....i dunno if that helps....but try getting the info off with the same OS

[Old Reliable]

ok WTF here is what I get from properties (and yes the disk is inserted)

[img]http://www.svsu.edu/~jpharmal/Images/untitled.JPG[/img]

[Bleuachdu]

If you've saved info on a disk from 98 or 95 or NT, it may not open on XP. I've had this happen to me before. If you saved it on 2000 however there shouldn't be a problem. Windows 98 and 95 use completely different file systems then XP and 2000, which translates to the floppy storage somehow. Its either this, or you saved a corrupted file on the disk and its run its course. Or you could have damaged the disk somehow. My guess though is that you saved the files on a Win98 machine. When Windows says "This disk must be formatted etc..." it may mean that it isn't seeing the file system its supposed to.

[Old Reliable]

ok I used the computer downstairs (win2k) and I got most of the files except for the most important one which is a .zip...how can I open damaged zip files?

[Bleuachdu]

Make sure the file is on the disk by looking for it in DOS first. As far as recovering damaged files... I don't know much about it. I do know that there are free disk repair tools out there, I'm just not sure if they work or not.

[Old Reliable]

thanks, well I founda utility it is called "PC Inspector File Recovery" and it is a German made product.... I "recovered" the .zip file (with some errors) and it gave me this message when I tried to open the zip file

[img]http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/fukked.jpg[/img]

I am just wondering if I can open it even if not all the info is there, or are all the documents trapped in the zip and I cannot retrieve them, it does not seem I can get around this error

[Bleuachdu]

try opening it with winrar or something other than winzip and see what happens.

[Old Reliable]

[img]http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/gdamnerrors.jpg[/img]
here is the lovely error i get

[Old Reliable]

thanks that did exactly the trick , im gonna have my mom send you chocolate chip cookies.

[Bleuachdu]

mmmmm cookies

[Old Reliable]

ok fuck that disk didnt have what i was looking for hake: i hate myself

[Bleuachdu]

LOL that sucks man.