Data Retrieval from floppy

[Skelator]

Hello everyone,

I have a question regarding data retrieval. The secretary at work took home a floppy disk this weekend with a Word 2002 document containing important information. She apparently worked on it for a number of hours and then something went wrong. It appears that she managed to save another document (her daughter’s school poem) over top of the important information. (The file name remains the same as it was before but the file itself is filled with the poem.) Is there any way to recover this data?

[Eric Legge]

Here are some data-recovery sites that might help.

You will be able to recover the data, but you might have to pay a data-recovery outfit to do it.

Surely the data should still be on the hard drive of that computer.

It can also be recovered from the HDD.

Data Recovery programs
Ontrack's EasyRecovery Pro recovers the data from inaccessible hard disk drives. Recovery software seldom comes free because of its complexity. This software is no exception to the rule.

http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery/

But here is an excellent exception to the rule...

The free Drive Rescue utility - http://home.arcor.de/christian_grau/rescue/index.html

Recover 4 All - recovers files emptied from Recycle Bin

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Kaus/homepage.htm

"Best $49 I ever spent on utility software. Inside of an hour, I was back up and running with all my data restored. I have since had the opportunity to use the software on other "dead" drives and it was always able to recover some level of data, even after a format. The downside is that this utility only works on NTFS partitions. If they came up with a version that worked on FAT partitions, they would have the market cornered. Just wanted to drop you a note to tell you about this wonderful utility at a bargain price. The web link is http://www.restorer2000.com ."


Eric,

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[Skelator]

Thanks for the help. I tried the "exception to the rule" and it was able to find a temp windows files that had almost all of the data on it. The program itself would not let me save the file unless I paid the $, but it did let me take a look at the file in text format. Which was great because I took some screenshots and printed them out. The secretary didn't mind retyping the 10 pages, she just didn't want to have to recreate the entire document. Thanks again.