Need major disk help! How can I fix this?

Question

I have a normal floppy disk that I have been using to save my assignments for a college writing class. I have a 10-page paper on there that I saved changes to last night. When I try to bring it up today, however, I get a message saying the file cannot be read. Any way to get around this? Any help appreciated! Thanks!

Thank you for the help so far, just wanted to add one little detail (may not be little) that I do have other files on the disk that come up with no problem, it's just this big one I'm having trouble with. The disk is not full either, it only has about four or five other documents and they are one or two pages. I don't know if this changes anything. Thanks!

Answer 1

ouch you are probably going to have to go to your backup. and lost whatever work you did since your last backup


This is why i always email myself a copy of something I have been working on

Answer 2

If the Word Auto Save feature was enabled, an automatic backup file may have been saved to a location on the hard drive of the PC. Check by selecting
Tools, Options, Save--is auto backup on?
Then look at File Locations, where did it save to.

Only other suggestion is to try another PC if it can read the disk.
In the future understand that disks, CD's, DVD's Hard Drives DO NOT last more than 6 months-3 years. Thats especillay importnat for people who think their precious didgital pictures are ok on a disk only stored in ONE place.

Answer 3

you need to go to officemax or some other office supply store and get a 3 1/2 inch floppy cleaning kit. they are about $6. they will clean smoke, dust and oil from the air off of the recording heads.

to use put some of the alcohol on the cloth in the window of disk and place the disk in the drive.

open your browser.

press CTRL+O to get the open box.

in the open box click on 3 1/2 floppy and the drive will start o run and the cleaning disk will clean the heads. do tthis twice to be sure they are clean.

now you need to fix the disk errors on your other floppy disk. the drive has messed up it's file allocation table.

if you don't have windows xp click on start > programs > accessories > system > disk scan

run disk scan in the through mode and have it automatically fix errors. when it is through run the defrag program in the same directory as disk scan is.

if you have windows xp click start > run > type in chkdsk and press enter. this will remove the errors off of your other disk.

Answer 4

You didn't by chance happen to close the little safety window did you???? Hopefully that is all it is.