floppy disc with important info won't work

Imprtant work files were backed up onto a floppy disc which will not work on either of our computers' floppy drives. When I go to my computer and access the A drives both show "not responding", so it must be the disc. How can I retrieve my work files from this disc? Please any suggestions, or I'm in for a lot of work!!!

 

Try this: http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm It's a free data recovery program. I've used it on hard drives many times successfully but never on a floppy disk, but it should work. You could also try recovering the files in DOS: boot to a MSDOS startup floppy, then insert your disk, and copy them to the hard drive (be sure to create a new empty folder on C: before booting to DOS) using the copy command by typing 'copy a:\filename c:\new folder name\filename' without the quotes.... I think there are some floppy disk repair tools in either the Backup or Drive Utilities or Data Recovery sections here at Major Geeks..... good luck!

hd2k

 

why on earth are you still using a floppy disk??

go get yourself a cheap usb drive

unless its for boot purposes i guess...