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Postby brad » Thu Mar 04, 2004 10:40 am

You could be right, badpolarbear. My experience has been that this is typical of a floppy that wasn't/isn't formatted properly before writting to it.
I've seen this happen too many times. You saved to the floppy but then it won't open because the files need to open are overwritten. That's why you should always format a floppy before using. I'd even format new "Formatted" floppys.
There's a chance of recovering and a detailed explaination in this MSKB article: .
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Postby noby » Thu Mar 04, 2004 11:58 am

you can always try to read the floppy (or anything) with BadCopy Pro
and save the readable things on your disc

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Postby noby » Thu Mar 04, 2004 12:02 pm

you could try reading the contents with BadCopy Pro and save it on your disc

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