Computer "Guru's" NEED HELP!!

[justinp20012500]

Mothers day we took some family pictures with my father - in - law's dinosaur of a digital camera. (3. 5 floppy)



I took the floppy home last night and I went to copy the pics from the floppy to the HD and my computer froze. I waited for the light to go off on the drive and took the floppy out. (I just did a copy and not a "cut and paste")



I restarted the computer and tried again and now the disk says it needs to be reformatted.



I have searched and a found a company that will take data off damaged HD's and floppys, but the price is $89 per floppy.



Are there any programs out there that will save some of the data?



Please help before my wife KILLS me!!!





Justin

 

[Todd G]

Have you tried the floppy on a different computer?

 

[klenger]

What's a floppy? Sounds like Viagra might be needed. :-laf

 

[mberry]

Todd is right. See if you can try it in a different computer.

 

[justinp20012500]

Have you tried the floppy on a different computer?

Yep, and no dice!



I tried and it says the same thing...



I have googled "3. 5 floppy file recovery" and have down loaded a couple of programs. Does anyone have any experience with these type of programs?

 

[justinp20012500]

Just down loaded some "freeware" products.



1. File Scavenger (worked pretty good)



2. Bad Copy Pro v3. 75 (let me preview the pics, but wanted $40 to actually recover them)

 

[Royk]

Norton Utilities (which I basically hate) Disk Doctor can do a fairly good job of recovering at least some data from a disk. That is if it still supports floppies. If you do get Norton, load it, use it to fix your problem and uninstall it. It usually causes more problems than it fixes if you leave it installed.



Roy