Floppy drive

I have backups in 1.44 backups floppy in windows 98.
WHILE OPENINIG IN WINXP Message is The disk in drive A is nor formatted.Do you want to format it now ?.My back ups are in LZH files.They are very important accounting records.Does any body have solutions? I am scrared.

 

Hello, I have edited your post to remove your email address as an email address on the internet is a target for spam. With regards to your floppy disks, all I can say is that they have probably degraded and cannot be read. I suggest you look into recovery methods. Sorry!

 

Hopefully your backup is not over multiple disks. LZH is a compression standard. You can uncompress with something like WinRAR or 7-zip (freeware). What program did you use to back up your files?

http://majorgeeks.com/7-Zip_d4603.html

Edit: If XP does not see the floppy as having files, then the above will not work and you will need to use recovery software. Do you have another computer with a floppy drive?

 

I know this sounds crazy but, hold the floppy so you can tap it on edge on a table or desk. Tap it on the two sides edges and the back edge then see if XP will recognize the disk as formatted. I've had this work in some cases but not always.

 

oh!thanks but my floppys are neither degraded nor have bad clusters but are in upto date conditions,but i can not read it in xp because they are compressed are their ways to read it in xp?

 

Yes i have another computer with floppy drive.

 

Can you specify which recovery softwares?

 

In my previous post I mentioned 7zip. It can uncompress LZH files. What program did you use to create these backups?

 

Accounting programme based on dos application which uses dbf files
ok thanks
But my problem solved through data recovery software minidoor partition data recovery tool from my hard disk.

 

because its storage devise does not support memory application

 

So MiniTools Power Data Recovery worked for your. Good. Thanks for the feedback.