Broken floppy

[bobbobley]

and no, Viagra won't work...I have files saved on a floppy disc and think i did something last year to the disc - compacted it perhaps? anyway, now i can't access the files using a different pc. do i have to use the same pc? if so, do i then do something to the disc to make it usable in any pc? or can i do something on my current pc to rectify this problem??

[ajmmac]

from what u say--'compacted it perhaps'--it seems u might have compressed the floppy drive on ur previous computer--if that is the case then the drive u r trying to read it from has to be 'mounted'--whether u will be able to access ur files on this other computer depends on the operating system used when disk was compressed and the os u r using now--eg w98 used what is called the FAT system whereas XP uses NTFS--doesn't matter what these mean--just that they are different--not sure what winME or 2000 used--never had them myself--i am sure someone else knows--the point is that XP does not support fat compression--only ntfs and zip--so if u are using xp at the moment then u have to go back to the system u created the disk on--if indeed it is compressed--which ur not sure --does the pc ur using now read the disk at all--even if it wont open the files

[bobbobley]

spot on ajmmac, just checked that and it has been compressed on a windows 95 system. all it finds is a readme.txt file which says I need to run drvspace on Win95 to mount the disc. Problem now is all pcs in the office are windows 2000 and this file is not on there. Can't find the equivalent either - any ideas?

[ajmmac]

hmmmmmmmmmm--thinking bob

[ajmmac]

tried a few things here bob--i have a pc with win98 as well as xp--booted to 98 and compressed floppy drive and copied a file to disk--rebooted to xp and played around but with no luck--rebooted to command prompt in xp hoping dos might read disk but alas no--nothing else comes to mind at the moment--best if u can get access to win95 or 98 machine and copy files to its hdd then onto uncompressed floppy--surely tho someone else'll have ideas