Issue with floppy disk

[2K2 LS1]

I am getting this error:



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[Denny]

Eject the game from the Nintendo and blow in it.

[2K2 LS1]

Eject the game from the Nintendo and blow in it.

Funny but I want to get an old race video off a floppy disc

[mustang_revival]

Do any floppy disks work?

[mstng86]

Run a magnet across it a few times. Should do the trick.

[Denny]

Syntax error

[Nash B.]

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[ram57ta]

Floppy disk?


Really now. Its 2011. What in the hell video would actually fit on a floppy and at what resolution?

[Darren M]

Sounds like the disk is hosed. Those disks were never meant to retain data over long periods of time. However, get a can of air, not compressor air, canned air, spray out your floppy drive with short bursts. Try to clean disk reader/head. Is this a 3 1/2 disk or 5 1/4? If tha drive doesn't work, try to take the floppy to Best Buy or a library. You MIGHT get real lucky and pull something off it. Also, there are various recovery services that can be employeed if the data is valuable enough. I'm sure Google can return many data recovery companies. (I'm assuming a race video is of low priority/cost.)

[ceyko]

Darren M is pretty much dead on with his run down of it. Especially if you put another 3.5" disk in and it reads it - you'll know it is a disk issue and not a drive issue. Either way, clean the drive, clean the disk, and cross your fingers.

[Darren M]

Great point ceyko. Find a worthless floppy and try to format it. If it formats just fine your disk is probably trashed. If the drive can't read multiple disks, or format one, it's probably the drive. I know a guy who has a 3 1/2 floppy drive that works. Let me know if I can help.

[Nash B.]

Sounds like the disk is hosed. Those disks were never meant to retain data over long periods of time. However, get a can of air, not compressor air, canned air, spray out your floppy drive with short bursts. Try to clean disk reader/head. Is this a 3 1/2 disk or 5 1/4? If tha drive doesn't work, try to take the floppy to Best Buy or a library. You MIGHT get real lucky and pull something off it. Also, there are various recovery services that can be employeed if the data is valuable enough. I'm sure Google can return many data recovery companies. (I'm assuming a race video is of low priority/cost.)

LOL, I haven't seen a 5 1/4" disk or drive in at least 10 years. We still had and regularly used 3 1/2" disks in high school.

[Darren M]

Oh, I'm sure they're still out there. The original post didn't distinguish between the two. Although I find it VERY difficult to believe any kind of video could exist on 5 1/4 and only a small one on 3 1/2. However, before CD's and CDRW there were some disk formats that were nominally popular. Zip disks, 100meg 3 1/2" disks were quite popular for a few years and I suspect this may be what we're looking at. My notes above still hold true for those diskettes as well. (There were others too as I recall but I don't remember their names.)

[Nash B.]

I remember the ZIP disks but I'd never heard of a 100 MB 3 1/2" floppy.

[bottlerocket]

LOL, I haven't seen a 5 1/4" disk or drive in at least 10 years. We still had and regularly used 3 1/2" disks in high school.

They had computers when you were in high school old man?

BTW, this does not count as a computer....