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Oldie? 3.5 inch floppy problem

  • 10-07-2008 1:12am
    #1
    Eyeballs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭


    one of my mates has some course work on floppy and was hoping to retreive it as he's going back to school. Anyway after searching I found a pc in work with a floppy drive but when I insert the foppy's it keeps telling me that "No id mark was found" so I can't get at any of the data out , as far as he remembers the discs were made on a pc using win 98 and the pc in work runs win xp. Any help would be much appreciated


Comments

  • #2
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Jaysus, I seen the thread title and thought you were in the wrong place. :pac:

    Floppies don't last very long. Seeing as it was made on windows 98, I reckon that it's just not usable any more and the data is essentially lost. I hope I'm wrong for your mates sake.


  • #3
    mollydolly271
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 290 ✭✭mollydolly271


    ha so thought this was something else????:o


  • #4
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,919 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Lollers. Thread title of the year.


  • #5
    allybhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭allybhoy


    Yep floppies are one of the most unstable media's ever. Sunlight\magnets\phones can all affect them badly. Ive seen that error before though and what I would suggest though is that you try the disk in another machine with a floppy drive as its possible that the floppy drive in that machine has never been used b4 and could be knackerd.


  • #6
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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  • #7
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    Lots of results with a Google search, but looks like nothing that helps. I think basically, the disk is fubar.


  • #8
    Nonmonotonic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 422 ✭✭Nonmonotonic


    Are you sure the floppy drive is working. Try a blank floppy in it and see can you format and read.


  • #9
    zilog_jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    Yeah try it on a known working floppy drive. If the problem remaind, I dunno if something like chkdsk or scandisk would be able to fix the said issue. Norton Disk Doctor worked wonders back in the day with gammy unreadable Zip disks (click of death lol), dunno if it could help in this situation either...


  • #10
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Try the disk in another drive, as many other drives as you can get. Don't give up too easily.
    It was quite common for perfectly good disks to be un-readable in drives other than the one which was used to write the disk. AFAIR I had something to do with the read tolerance on the reading drive being out of step with the write tolerance of the drive used to write the disk.


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