I teach at a highschool and one of the other teachers came to me w/ a dire need. She has been saving her grades on a 3.5" floppy and now of course the floppy won't read and she has no backup. I know some of ya'll would just say F it you shoulda backed that up, but I really wanna help her. I'ved done some data recovery on harddisk but never floppys. Are their any good free utilites for floppy data recovery??? Windows based utilites are better but I decently use linux {knoppix distro}.

So you know I did give her the lecture on how shitty floppys are and how she needs to back her crap up.

2/17/2007 10:23:48 AM

try running a chkdsk/scandisk on the floppy.. and tell her to switch to thumbdrives

2/17/2007 10:54:33 AM

yea, chkdsk is about your only hope. Even then its going tobe a crapshoot getting the data back

2/17/2007 10:56:32 AM

tell her to stay away from magnets

2/17/2007 2:05:01 PM

She's most likely boned. I've never seen any recover data from a 3.5" disk that choosen to stop being read. I've seen the same thing with ZIP and JAZ disks.

2/17/2007 2:15:54 PM

Please stop using the "word" GAWDS.

For all that is holy.

2/17/2007 2:50:03 PM

get her to con her students into giving her their grades without letting them know she lost them.

what i mean is like make the students start charting their grades to "record their progress" or something, then have a conference with the teacher to make sure they are on track to do well in the course. that way maybe she'll get some of the grades back, and she doesnt have to tell the kids that she drops some of teh grades off at the end of the semester that she doesnt have

2/17/2007 3:16:06 PM