DanTheMan 0 Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 A floppy disk I was using to carry coursework has become corrupted and will no longer work. Is there ANY way which I can salvage this work, when I cannot access the A:/ drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 5906 Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 take it to pc world and let them have a bash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 scandisk it first, you'll have a few bad sectors but should save the majority. Norton utilities is very handy if you can find a copy. This is no use now but for future reference, I don't know how many times I said it to students when I was working in the computer centre at University, keep a backup, preferably two! Failing that viagra works a treat, especially when mixed with pills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chip2388 0 Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Buy a USB its alot more reliable and never crashes on me, it holds alot more memory than a floppy disk depending on what size you get, plus you can stick in with your other keys so it'll be with you at all times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 take it to pc world and let them have a bash 43808[/snapback] I'm assuming that's a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras 234 Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 I had this problem a few weeks ago and used this program which recovered every bit of data from the disk: PC inspector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Geordie 1 Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Buy a USB its alot more reliable and never crashes on me, it holds alot more memory than a floppy disk depending on what size you get, plus you can stick in with your other keys so it'll be with you at all times. 43813[/snapback] Bit late telling him that now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6302 Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Buy a USB its alot more reliable and never crashes on me, it holds alot more memory than a floppy disk depending on what size you get, plus you can stick in with your other keys so it'll be with you at all times. 43813[/snapback] USB pens are as reliable as floppy drives, both should be used for one thing and one thing only - transporting data from one machine to another. Neither of them should ever be used to store back-ups or worse, the primary copy of your data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou 0 Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 According to one of my uni lecturers today, if a floppy disk becomes corrupted then there's no way of fixing it. I don't know if he's right. Just thought I'd share his happy message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikko 20 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Buy a USB its alot more reliable and never crashes on me, it holds alot more memory than a floppy disk depending on what size you get, plus you can stick in with your other keys so it'll be with you at all times. 43813[/snapback] USB pens are as reliable as floppy drives, both should be used for one thing and one thing only - transporting data from one machine to another. Neither of them should ever be used to store back-ups or worse, the primary copy of your data. 43839[/snapback] Also make sure you only remove it when you are certain the data has finished being written to it, and the computer not using it at all. As if you remove it during a write phase they get corrupted and usually need a format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Floppy's should be banned. They have the reliability of a Sunderland fan. P.S i would say your fucked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17765 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Can't believe anybody still ues floppys tbh. A lot of modern PCs don't even have floppy drives, especially lap tops. Truely ancient technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 0 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 I was ultra paranoid about my thesis and kept copies saved all over the place. A lad at my college managed to lose his 12,000 word thesis the day before it was due to be handed in and had to start again from scratch. They eventually gave him a bit longer, but he was threatened with being chucked off the course. 43947[/snapback] I would've actually dropped down dead if that happened to me. Over the next year I've got to do a portfolio thing for college. I'll end up having at least 3 copies of the typed bit but there's got to be 'evidence' as well which will be a nightmare to keep track of. I always lose things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 5906 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 aye i kept 2 copies of mine, took it in to be printed and bound 2 hours before the hand in time only to find all my page numbers were wrong, fortunately the nice man in the shop sorted it on his computer for me and i got a respectable 62%. not bad for a weeks work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17765 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 I was ultra paranoid about my thesis and kept copies saved all over the place. A lad at my college managed to lose his 12,000 word thesis the day before it was due to be handed in and had to start again from scratch. They eventually gave him a bit longer, but he was threatened with being chucked off the course. 43947[/snapback] A week before I had to hand in my thesis, I managed to delete my entire reference/citation database (on a program called endonote) just by pressing the wrong button once. 5000 references and abstracts collected over 5 years, gone in a flash. No back up. ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unbeilevable that I hadn't made a copy, to this day I can't believe it. What an idiot. Fortunately I only needed to reenter about 400 citations for my thesis, which took me about 48 hours virtually non stop - I still have nightmares thinking about it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 5906 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 dissertations are just cunts! unis should stop bothering with them, worst few weeks of most peoples young lives! or months if you tried hard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17765 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 dissertations are just cunts! unis should stop bothering with them, worst few weeks of most peoples young lives! or months if you tried hard! 43959[/snapback] Try writing a PhD thesis. 100,000 words followed by an interview (viva) on it (with two or three experts in the field) that takes a whole day. There's a good chance you will fail too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17765 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Content and usefulness wise, undergraduate theses/dissertations are pretty useless - mine included, it was no masterpiece really and won't have exactly contributed to academic discussion. I see the logic behind doing them, after three years on a history degree it would be ludicrous if you hadn't developed research skills and the like. 43963[/snapback] I guess it depends what you do I suppose. As it happens I found some innovative results for my project that my undergraduate dissertation was based on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakermaker 0 Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 (edited) A floppy disk I was using to carry coursework has become corrupted and will no longer work. Is there ANY way which I can salvage this work, when I cannot access the A:/ drive? 43807[/snapback] you fools,you can't understanding the freudian nature of the question,his floppy has become corrupted(ie he has a dose),on which he was carrying his coursework(ie classmate/girlfriend/shagpartner) "is there anyway i can salvage this work"="how do i get rid of the warts" "when i cannot access the A:/drive"="she dosent want it up the arse anymore" Edited October 9, 2005 by shakermaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanTheMan 0 Posted October 9, 2005 Author Share Posted October 9, 2005 A floppy disk I was using to carry coursework has become corrupted and will no longer work. Is there ANY way which I can salvage this work, when I cannot access the A:/ drive? 43807[/snapback] you fools,you can't understanding the freudian nature of the question,his floppy has become corrupted(ie he has a dose),on which he was carrying his coursework(ie classmate/girlfriend/shagpartner) "is there anyway i can salvage this work"="how do i get rid of the warts" "when i cannot access the A:/drive"="she dosent want it up the arse anymore" 44057[/snapback] Anyway, I've managed to salvage my coursework. Luckily I printed off the finished copy the previous day, so I was able to scan it back on (took me bloody ages mind). Ta for your help everyone, and I have learnt my lesson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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