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

[Rick Cook]

On Tuesday 03 April 2001 18:41, 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.

You could try to "convert and copy" the floppy to a file:

	dd if=/dev/fd0 of=<pick a file name>

Then, assuming the dd command worked, you could:

	mount -o loop <pick a file name> /mnt

to attempt to examine the content.


Good Luck

Rick
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