How to Fix a Floppy Disk

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Tip 1 - fixing a bad floppy

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Mario Agrifani | permalink

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?) Is there anything built in to Windows XP that would allow me

For further reading: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/101325-45-fixing-floppy ^[1]

Tip 2 - How to Fix a Floppy Disk | eHow

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by 3 GBMCSICU | permalink

You need information off of your floppy disk, but you can't get at it. We'll tell you how to fix it!

For further reading: http://www.ehow.com/how_2304305_fix-floppy-disk.html ^[2]

Tip 3 - Flobo Floppy Bad Sector Repair. Get the software safe and easy.

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Orit Naor | permalink

Flobo Floppy Bad Sector Repair is a tool especially designed and developed to repair the Floppies. It is a totally different type of software then...

For further reading: http://flobo-floppy-bad-sector-repair.software.informer.com/ ^[3]

Tip 4 - Basic floppy disk drive troubleshooting

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Juhani Tenhunen | permalink

Information and help on trouble shooting a computer floppy diskette drive.

For further reading: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000277.htm ^[4]

Tip 5 - Can a magnet be used to fix an “unformattable” floppy disk?

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Lenora Lee | permalink

Sometimes a floppy disk (or other magnetic media like it) won’t read or write properly. Specifically, a format won’t work an gives various errors such as Unable to write track 0 or opening the disk...

For further reading: http://superuser.com/questions/396926/can-a-magnet-be-used-to-fix-an-unformattable-floppy-disk ^[5]