Re: O-L-D Diskette Error Message

Is it 1.44M (HD) or 720K (DD) floppy? Does it have a second hole?
If I remember correctly, WIndows XP doesn't support 720K anymore.

<mutefan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have one (and only one) remaining diskette containing copies of very
valuable documents from the early 90's. I thought I'd never have a
reason to need these files and so discarded other diskettes, thinking
I'd play it safe by saving this one.

When I tried to boot it with an external floppy drive on my laptop, the
message came up "This disk is not formatted. Would you like to format
it now?" I realize this might be because the original--which most
definitely WAS formatted--might not be using the XP format system.

But then I tried to read the files in the internal A drive on an old
P3, and I got the same message, and now I'm really nervous.

If anyone can point me to a link where I can learn how to get this
diskette to display the files that definitely are still on it, I'd
appreciate a response.



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