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How to recover floppy disc files without an old computer New, 34 comments The New York Public Library's digital curator of performing arts Doug Reside has posted a useful guide to recovering old. Two floppy disks do not get corrupted if they are stored together, due to the low level of magnetism in each one. In your PC, there is a twist in the FDD data-ribbon cable - this twist tells the computer whether the drive is an A-drive or a B-drive. Like many household appliances, there are really no serviceable parts in today's FDDs.

Data Deleted from flopdisk?
Data lost ?
How to recover files from floppy disk?
Floppy disk is not accessible?
Deleted files from floppy disk?
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Are you familiar with these queations? If you are a computer user, you may have met these questions, if you felt sorry after you did these stupid things, you may want to do something helpful to make up for it, but how to do? what to do? Let's have some knowledge of it.

How does data of floppy disk loss?

Deleting something is a kind of common thing we may do in our daily life, but not all the files we delete is all that we want to delete, sometimes we may delete our floppy disk by accident, and also we may empty our recycle bin, so the result is data lost.

Another situation is that you may meet the floppy disk not formatted error, thaen you cannot get your data, this is also a kind of data lost problem, you mey meet different kinds of floppy disk data lost problem, have you ever thought of recover your data?

Have you ever thought of recover your files? Have your files really lost?

When you use Windows to delete your data, it doesn't loss actually, it also doesn't mean that you can't get your data for ever, after you delete your floppy disk, your files haven't lost actually, it's just because Windows has regarded the space as available room, if you haven't cover your floppy disk, there's still some possibility to recover your data.but you need to remenber that don't cover the disk that has been deleted.

How to recover files from floppy disk?

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After you delete your data from floppy disk, you may have thought of recovering your files, for some difficult recoveries, you may need to send your computer to the data recovery software, but we all know that it's very expensive.

The second way is very simple, for some simple recoveries, we can leave it to some data recovery softwares, and I want to introduce a very professional data recovery software, that is iCare Data Recovery Pro.

iCare Data Recovery Pro is able to deal with different kinds of data lost problems.

iCare Data Recovery Pro can help you with floppy data lost problem. There are some similar problems that iCare Data Recovery can be solved:

• floppy disk deleted error, data lost.
• Floppy disk is not accessable, data cannot be got.
• Floppy disk not formatted error, disk was damaged.
• Recover data of floppy disk.
• Restore files of floppy disk.
• Hard disk deleted error.
• Sd card data lost problem due to RAW filesystem.
• Partition deleted error.

… All the data lost problems like these can be recovered by iCare Data Recovery

Steps to Recover Files from Floppy Disk

Step1. Download and install the data recovery software on your computer. Then, you can choose a proper recovery option.

Step2. Choose the floppy disk and let the software scan it for lost files. You only need to wait when the software is scanning.

Step3. You can preview the files after scanning. Then, you can select the files you want to recover and save them.

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Use's experience:

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I felt very regerted after I deleted my floppy disk, I knew that I was very stupid that I suddenly deleted it , I have stored a lot of important files in it , now I deleted it, how can I do, I really want to make up for it, but I really don't know how to do before I know iCare Data Recovery Pro can help me out.

So I downloaded iCare Data Recovery Pro, and had a try, to my surprise, it works very well, and actually helped me out. So many thanks to iCare Data Recovery Pro.

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If you are experiencing issues with the floppy drive in your computer, review the troubleshooting options below to try and resolve the problem.

The troubleshooting options and details below are for floppy disk drive issues and not for issues about not being able to read one or two floppy disks. For floppy read errors see: Why can't my computer read a floppy diskette?

Bad floppy diskette

Verify the floppy diskette you are attempting to read from is not write protected or bad. Verify the diskette is not write protected by sliding the tab into the opposite position, preventing light from shining through it. If you do not have a tab, place tape over this hole.

Because of the technology of floppy diskette drives, the floppy diskettes ist most likely bad. Verify that other floppy diskettes are not exhibiting the same issue.

If other floppies work, you may have a bad floppy diskette.

Not setup in BIOS

Verify the floppy drive is properly configured in BIOS setup. If the floppy drive is not set up properly, you may experience read/write errors or the floppy may not work at all. Most computers need to have the floppy setup as a 3.5, 1.44 MB.

Eliminating possible conflicts with other hardware

If you have recently installed any new hardware, disconnect it temporarily to ensure that it's not causing the floppy drive not to work.

Not connected properly

• Power down, unplug, and open the computer, being aware of ESD and its potential dangers.
• Verify the floppy connection is connected to the motherboard FDD connector. If it is connected, disconnect and reconnect the cable to verify the cable is seated properly.
• Verify the floppy cable coming from the motherboard is connected to the back of the floppy drive. If connected, disconnect and reconnect the floppy drive cable to verify it is seated properly.

• Verify a power cable is connected to the back of the floppy drive.
• If your floppy cable has more than one connection, verify it's connected to the appropriate connection. The above picture illustrates where each drive is connected.

Bad drivers

If you are not able to read or write to a floppy diskette from Windows, verify the computer is not exhibiting floppy driver issues by testing the floppy drive from MS-DOS.

If you are running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows 2000, click Start, Shutdown, and Restart the computer to an MS-DOS prompt.

If you are running Windows 3.x, click File and select Exit Windows to get to an MS-DOS prompt.

Once at the prompt, place a diskette into the floppy disk drive and type format a:.

If you receive any of the following errors when trying to format the floppy disk:

Invalid media or Track 0 Bad - Try formatting another floppy disk.

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Write Protect Error - Ensure the disk is not write protected by removing the floppy disk and verifying you cannot see through both holes. If you can see light, move the tab on the left side (when looking from the back) to the down position and try again. If the disk is not write protected, try another floppy disk.

Invalid drive specification - Verify the floppy drive is configured properly in BIOS setup.

If the floppy disk drive formats properly in MS-DOS but does not format in Windows, Windows or a program within Windows is preventing the floppy drive from working. End task all running TSRs and background programs. If you continue to experience the same issues, we recommend Windows be reinstalled.

Bad hardware

If you continue to experience issues after following the above steps, hardware in the computer is bad. Replace the following hardware in the computer in the below order.

1. Replace the floppy data cable that connects the computer floppy drive to the motherboard.
2. Replace the floppy drive if the floppy data cable did not resolve your issues.
3. Replace or request that the motherboard be replaced.

Additional information

• See our floppy disk and floppy drive definitions for further information on each of these terms.