There are lots of password crackers available - including the example I
referred to from my web site which does all that the one you referred to can
manage. Password crackers have one thing in common. The demos can easily
crack a password that comprises four characters. They do not work so
remarkably when you try to crack a password of 8 or more random characters -
and you only discover that after you have paid your money. A decent password
can be cracked eventually, but it will take a seriously long time of
continuous processing to do so. We have no idea what sort of password
strength the OP may have used.
As Beth has pointed out, I referred to my web page primarily for its first
paragraph that merely emphasises the point that passwords against opening a
document are not easy to get around - and refer to software that I have
tried and know works ... eventually ... should the OP need such an approach.
As others have reminded you - the OP does not have a floppy drive. He needs
a means of getting the data from floppy to his PC. The PC will almost
certainly have a USB port, which makes flash a simple means of data
transfer, provided he can get access to a floppy drive or can get someone
copy the floppy discs for him.
Despite your protestations elsewhere in this thread, opening documents from
removable media is a frequent source of data corruption, and there is more
than enough evidence to show that this is the case - we see it in this forum
every week. We have no idea how large the flash media the OP may have
available (I have one piece with 8mb capacity), nor any idea how many files
are involved. Accessing data directly from flash media *may* not result in a
problem, but equally it might, so as I don't know what we are dealing with
any more than you do, suggesting the safest course is the best approach. The
safest course is to copy the files to the hard drive and open them from
there.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site
www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site
http://word.mvps.org
Scott M. wrote:
I hardly think that Word documents saved in 1994 had XML metadata
stored along with them. And so, the information on your page would
not be useful.
Secondly, why do the disk files need to be copied to flash memory
before being put on to a hard drive? And for that matter, why can't
the files be opened from a flash drive?
Thirdly, there are MANY tools out there that use different techniques
to open a Word document that is password protected, here is just one
example of a very good tool:
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/d...sword_14353_p/
I'm sorry Graham, but your information is just either wrong or not
applicable in this circumstance.
-Scott
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
There are two issues here - accessing the files and accessing the
protected documents. The first can be overcome by copying the discs
to flash memory and then you can copy them to the hard drive to
access them (DON'T access then from the flash memory).
If you don't know the passwords to open the documents, the chances of
opening them are slim to non-existent. The documents are encrypted
and you need the password to break the encryption. - see
http://www.gmayor.com/Remove_Password.htm
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Water and Trees wrote:
In 1994 I prepared documents saving them to 3 1/2" discs. Recently
found the discs (there's a whole box) and would like to access them.
No slot on my current computer for them, but have a friend whose
computer does still allow discs. My problem is wanting to by-pass
the passwords I set for myself back in 1994.
These are basic Word documents and there may be a few WordPerfect
documents on these discs as well. I just want to get by the
passwords and get to the documents.
Any suggestions are appreciated!
Thanks,