OK heres the DEAL i have been writing a paper for about a month now and have been saving to my floppy disk the whole time and then working off the floppy. When i go to get my papaer today it says that the disk is not formatted or may be formatted for a mac. WHAT?!! this does not make sense since i have already been using it for a month now. Can someone plz shed some light on this for me and plz tell me how to get my paper back. PS. i have tried this disk on 3 different computers all with windows xp and still the same formatt problem.Floppy disks go bad, just like hard drives. Could be the floppy drive is bad. Have you tried other diskettes in the floppy drive?

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Q: Why save & work off the floppy disk only? Why not save to the hard drive 1st, then copy or "Save As" to a diskette? That way you have 2 locations for the data in CASE one takes a dump on you Try this: PC Inspector File Recovery but bear in mind that floppies are prone to failure and not a good medium for storing your only copy of something.What is the file format shown on the disk (right click and properties)?

Was this disk formatted in the machine you have been using it on?

Alas, floppy disks die, but I would be interested in the answers to these questions.This happens all the time at work, we get students coming in with exactly the same problem.

We usually use a very OLD laptop with Norton Disk Doctor on it but it can sometime fail and you will generally then lose the work. However if you can get your hands on a Windows 98 or 95 PC then you should be able to get your data of the disk.

Save it to that PC, and on another floppy disk, disgard your original as it is useless now. Then go buy yourself a USB flash drive. Put the floppy in an XP computer and save the file on that and the USB flash drive.