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Thread ID: 11046	2001-08-28 10:08:00	Faulty floppy disk - valuable file - HELP	Guest (0)	Press F1

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17752	2001-08-28 10:08:00	Hi I have just finished rebuiilding a friends PC and have found that FD #6 of 9 with part of a Zip file containing the old but valauabale data is on a faulty floppy. I tried to runs scandisk to fix the problem but it tellme me there's not enough space on the disk. I can't copy the file temporarily elsewhere because my PC cant read the file. Can anyone help please Ron	Guest (0)
17753	2001-08-28 10:21:00	Get a copy of PKZIP for dos, it includes PKZIPFIX and will recover all it can. This has happened to me before, so now I leave 100KB free on each disk. You could try Norton Utilities (free trial, althouth is 45MB). You could also try to do a disk image for the disk, errors and all. But because its a full disk, i'm not sure if you can mount the image under windows, as I don't thing writing the image to another disk will help. If you have access to linux, it will let you mount disk images.	Guest (0)
17754	2001-08-30 01:10:00	I use an old version of Norton Disk Doctor and Disktools for DOS. It is MAGIC for repairing faulty floppies. Have a hunt around on the net, or failing that reply to me here and I can send you a copy.	Guest (0)
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