[NTLUG:Discuss] access data on "damaged" Win95 floppy?

[Bug Hunter]

  you can use dd to get the data off the floppy

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename

  then use a binary editor or a loop device to try to read the data.  it
is mostly hopeless without a LOT of time involved.

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Fred James wrote:

> Has anybody got any suggestions for retrieving Word documents from a
> floppy that suddenly is "not accessible"?
> I am open to suggestions for either Win95 or Linux machines.
> 
> -- 
> "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
> themselves up
> and hurry off as if nothing had happened" -Winston Churchill
> ... ain't it so?
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