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free utility software for data recovery from bad floppy disk

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rakhunathan Original post #1
Nov 25, 2005 at 7:42 AM
Is there any free software available for data recovery from bad floppy disk.
any help will be highly appreciated.I googled but with out any good result
S
Nov 25, 2005 at 5:56 PM
you can try the following software
*www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/


bye
selva1966
Nov 25, 2005 at 9:24 PM
Sadly bad copy is not a freeware :cry:
Gaurav
Gaurav #4
Nov 25, 2005 at 11:50 PM
but it's worth purchasing. :)
jay4u
jay4u #5
Nov 26, 2005 at 11:08 PM
i had a command line program called recover.exe it was a free software and it was very good... it could easily repair any damaged floppy disks....

Apart from it you all can try another free GUI tool called Drive rescue which is very good to repair floppy disks

But who uses floppies today... i have 60-80 damage floppies in my store apart from it my floppy drive is not working for past one year and i never cared to repair it

HA HA HA
V
Dec 1, 2005 at 9:43 PM
strangely though i never understand how data recovery takes place !!!

once a sector is damaged it is spoilt naaa

how can any software recover it !!!

it is the same read write head tht is used

so can anyone tell the science behind this thing ???
QwertyManiac
Dec 2, 2005 at 4:01 PM
Try this site @vijay - *shsc.info/DataRecovery
V
Dec 2, 2005 at 4:23 PM
thx a lot Qwerty ,

it cleared a lot of doubts !!!