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

[Bug Hunter]

  unless the i/o error is one where everything bails, you will still get
some data using dd.  It is rather blind to data errors.  

 It sounds like the floppy was magnetized, not just corrupted. In that
case, bye bye data.

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Fred James wrote:

> dd returns an I/O error on the disk
> 
> Bug Hunter wrote:
> > 
> >   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.
> > >