FLOPPY DISK PROBLEMS

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Hi Sarah

It sounds like you disk is corrupt. This is pretty common with floppy disks, which is why you shouldn't rely on them solely for backup unless you have duplicates.

I would suggest testing the disk in another computer other than that you can try a Floppy disk Recovery Program. You'll have to buy one, I have no experience of them but here's a couple from google:

http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/floppy_recovery.asp
http://www.mjm.co.uk/floppy.html

Regards
Dan


"sarah" wrote:

> when i insert my floppy in the computer, which i have done everyday with the same disk for months( it has all kinds of saved info that i need), it states that my disk is not formatted. It asks if i would like to format it and then says that all information will be erased. Is there anything i can do to not have to erase the information on the disk?