Floppy Disks

[Mo Z. Dizzle]

Is there anyway to open a floppy disk when it gives the following message:

The disk in drive A is not formatted.
Do you want to format it?


If i format it, it'll erase everything on the disk; and i don't want to do that.

[J Bananas]

are you sure it'll erase everything, usually formatting a disk is different from reformatting. i remember using floppy disks back in the day and formatting them without losing data.

[Mo Z. Dizzle]

Yup, I'm sure. It gave me this message:

WARNING: Formatting will erase ALL data on disk.
To format the disk, click OK. To quit, click CANCEL.

[Mackin]

I'm not certain you can open a floppy disk, b/c that would untangle the material that holds your data!
I'm not certain if there is a solution for your problem, Unless at the bottom of the floppy disk, you should see two holes, one of them has a shutter that you can move up and down, try moving itup/dwn to close one of the holes, put your disk back in and see if it works for you.

[K.Dub]

Why are u still using floppy disks?

[Mo Z. Dizzle]

Why are u still using floppy disks?

lol, i had some old pictures and files from a few years ago that i saved onto floppy disks
and wanted to check them out (stuff i wrote; pictures, etc.)

I'm not certain you can open a floppy disk, b/c that would untangle the material that holds your data!

LOL

I'm not certain if there is a solution for your problem, Unless at the bottom of the floppy disk, you should see two holes, one of them has a shutter that you can move up and down, try moving itup/dwn to close one of the holes, put your disk back in and see if it works for you.

Thanks for the info man; I'm going to try that.
I'm praying it works.

[J.D. Wykid, Esq.]

Why are u still using floppy disks?

yea for real lol most computers now a-days dont even have floppy drives. 

[J.D. Wykid, Esq.]

Why are u still using floppy disks?

lol, i had some old pictures and files from a few years ago that i saved onto floppy disks
and wanted to check them out (stuff i wrote; pictures, etc.)

I'm not certain you can open a floppy disk, b/c that would untangle the material that holds your data!

LOL

I'm not certain if there is a solution for your problem, Unless at the bottom of the floppy disk, you should see two holes, one of them has a shutter that you can move up and down, try moving itup/dwn to close one of the holes, put your disk back in and see if it works for you.

Thanks for the info man; I'm going to try that.
I'm praying it works.

ahh! i see..if you cant get that stuff to work, take it to geek squad or some shit, im sure they would be able to transfer the stuff onto a CD-R or something.

[Mackin]

@ Mo Z. Dizzle give it a try, if nothin, then do what Wykid suggests!!
best of Luck!

[Mo Z. Dizzle]

Thanks dudes!
I tried moving the shutters up and down but to no luck.
I'll take it into some computer tech person and hopefully they can help me open em.

Anyways thanks again and prop to all.

[Mo Z. Dizzle]

Well, I got some good news and bad news (for me).

The good news: I was able to get check those floppy disks out on my old laptop (I think about 10 years old) without formatting any of the disks.

The bad news: I couldn't find two of my write-ups that I did which really annoys me cause I spend a lot of effort on those two and thought they were some of the best I wrote.


Gotta ask around now and see if any of my friends kept the works when I sent it out lol.

[Mackin]

Oh yeah that would expling a lot!..damn Lol
How come you couldn't find your write up???

[Mo Z. Dizzle]

Oh yeah that would expling a lot!..damn Lol
How come you couldn't find your write up???

Well what happened a few years back was that I was moving.
And the PC i had at that time was really garbage, so we (we as in my family) were going to buy a new one.
The last few days before we were moving, that PC would freeze every time I started it up.

So I'm guessing that I either didn't save it on a floppy before that happened or I can't find the floppy that I saved it on.
Probably the second one, since I do remember saving the write-ups on a disk.

[Mackin]

Oh yeah that would expling a lot!..damn Lol
How come you couldn't find your write up???

Well what happened a few years back was that I was moving.
And the PC i had at that time was really garbage, so we (we as in my family) were going to buy a new one.
The last few days before we were moving, that PC would freeze every time I started it up.

So I'm guessing that I either didn't save it on a floppy before that happened or I can't find the floppy that I saved it on.
Probably the second one, since I do remember saving the write-ups on a disk.

Oh Right!!
Well if you saved on a disk and can't find it, then it's gon be hard to re-open the file!
How old is the PC??
I was going to suggest 'System Restore' ..that way you cloud perhaps access the said documents at some point before it was updated and saved to a floppy disk..you know?

[Mo Z. Dizzle]

Oh yeah that would expling a lot!..damn Lol
How come you couldn't find your write up???

Well what happened a few years back was that I was moving.
And the PC i had at that time was really garbage, so we (we as in my family) were going to buy a new one.
The last few days before we were moving, that PC would freeze every time I started it up.

So I'm guessing that I either didn't save it on a floppy before that happened or I can't find the floppy that I saved it on.
Probably the second one, since I do remember saving the write-ups on a disk.

Oh Right!!
Well if you saved on a disk and can't find it, then it's gon be hard to re-open the file!
How old is the PC??
I was going to suggest 'System Restore' ..that way you cloud perhaps access the said documents at some point before it was updated and saved to a floppy disk..you know?

The PC is i think about 6 or 7 yrs old I think.
My brother-in-law recently reformatted it though so it's been wiped cleaner than a baby's behind.

I had it up on my old website, but Yahoo deleted that because I was inactive; and I was too dumb to go on the website and make a copy lol.