Hello and good day!

I'm having an issue concerning a floppy DISK. It was working fine a week ago, but when I placed the floppy disk in the drive this morning I got a message that said:

"The disk in drive A is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?"

Now these pictures are very important, and I believe "formatting" a disk means erasing it completely.

Is there a means on how I can save my pictures? What's my BEST solution at this point?Try it in a different computer first. After that you might be looking at data recovery if the disk is readable. Do not format the disk.If you get the same error message with any floppy diskette you put in, most likely the problem is that the floppy drive has a) gone BAD or b) needs to be cleaned. Get some compressed AIR and blow it out. If the problem still exists, replace the drive.

Alan <>< Quote from: PCNewbie on June 20, 2007, 10:00:40 AM

Now these pictures are very important, and I believe "formatting" a disk means erasing it completely.

Have you tried to read the floppy from a command prompt?

Quote from: 2k_dummy on June 20, 2007, 12:12:49 PM

Have you tried to read the floppy from a command prompt?

What do I type to read it from the command prompt?

Truth be told this isn't my disk, as I always have a back-up of my stuff.