Another solution provided you used an old FD to access those floppies is a NEW FD instead. For the cost of a new FD and/or ext. USB floppy drive may access the problem floppies, excluding true damage.
I have some old floppy disks (about 70) that I created for backup on my old Windows Millenium sytem. There are some old photos I would like to have. I can't open about 1/2 of them on an XP system. Only 1 is physically damaged. All the data recovery people are pretty pricy to recover them ($20. each). The disks have been in the house the whole time. What they say when you try to open them is "do you want to format this disk?" I've tried them on more than on XP system.
There are some software programs that say they can recover your disks. Would they work for this?
bkay

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