mikebowlin
June 25th, 2001, 10:46 PM
I saved a file on an unformatted disk.
How can I get the information from the disk? null
lynnm
June 26th, 2001, 01:12 AM
You can't "save" a file to an unformatted disk. Windows won't allow you to and in any event even if Windows somehow did not detect that the disk was unformatted the disk is incapable of accepting data if it is unformatted.
In all likelihood the file has actually been saved to your hard disk. Do a search using the name you had assigned to the file.
Start>Find[enter the file name in the dialogue box]>OK.
Let us know how you make out.
jtdoom
August 4th, 2001, 08:24 AM
hi,
I think it no longer applies to win98se, but there used to be a bug in dos/win95
the bug was caused by the user...
what could happen was this
one pops in a floppy and looks at content
this reads the floppy FAT
one got the floppy out, and put another one in while the OS still had the FAT read into memory....
now, when you save something to the floppy one replaced it with, the wrong FAT got put on that floppy...
(usually making it unreadable...)
some bug, eh?
anyway, I dunno if that was what happened.
I suggest you try Norton Disk Doctor or a similar tool.
you can run NDD from CDrom itself if need be.