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disk went bad, how can I get the info off of it?
I was using word last night and saved on a disk. Now I can't bring up the
info from the disk. I get an error message that the disk has not been formatting or has been formatted for macintosh. Then the next message I get says that it does not recongize disk media. I have used this disk before with no problems. |
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You should never save the only copy on a floppy. Save to your hard drive,
then copy to floppy. You're out of luck unless you saved another version or a copy on your hard drive. "Jenn1220" wrote: I was using word last night and saved on a disk. Now I can't bring up the info from the disk. I get an error message that the disk has not been formatting or has been formatted for macintosh. Then the next message I get says that it does not recongize disk media. I have used this disk before with no problems. |
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You probably can't get the information off it. File recovery tools such as
OnTrack's Easy recovery Pro may help, but essentially the disc is corrupt. This is a frequent experience of those who open and save Word documents directly to floppy. Always open and save via the hard drive and copy to floppy. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jenn1220 wrote: I was using word last night and saved on a disk. Now I can't bring up the info from the disk. I get an error message that the disk has not been formatting or has been formatted for macintosh. Then the next message I get says that it does not recongize disk media. I have used this disk before with no problems. |
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You might try opening explorer, drag the file over to your desktop, and then
try opening it. Good Luck Chuck "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You probably can't get the information off it. File recovery tools such as OnTrack's Easy recovery Pro may help, but essentially the disc is corrupt. This is a frequent experience of those who open and save Word documents directly to floppy. Always open and save via the hard drive and copy to floppy. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jenn1220 wrote: I was using word last night and saved on a disk. Now I can't bring up the info from the disk. I get an error message that the disk has not been formatting or has been formatted for macintosh. Then the next message I get says that it does not recongize disk media. I have used this disk before with no problems. |
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If the disc is corrupt you will not be able to access it with Explorer.
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Chuck wrote: You might try opening explorer, drag the file over to your desktop, and then try opening it. Good Luck Chuck "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You probably can't get the information off it. File recovery tools such as OnTrack's Easy recovery Pro may help, but essentially the disc is corrupt. This is a frequent experience of those who open and save Word documents directly to floppy. Always open and save via the hard drive and copy to floppy. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jenn1220 wrote: I was using word last night and saved on a disk. Now I can't bring up the info from the disk. I get an error message that the disk has not been formatting or has been formatted for macintosh. Then the next message I get says that it does not recongize disk media. I have used this disk before with no problems. |
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