Trying to retreave old data

DOS 6.22 is over at www.bootdisk.com

If this was in Windows 95 then DOS 6.22 should be OK or even a Windows 98 boot disk from same place.

To get your files out, I would put them on CDR with thesd free tools -> http://www.freeweb.hu/doscdroast/index.html

Bob

are simply old diskettes. Old soldiers may never die, old diskettes surely do. Having a file on a diskette and trying to read it a few years later is likely to fail.

Practically speaking, diskettes were only useful to copy files between machines. Not for any permanent storage. Not for backup, unless you made multiple copies and refreshed them every few years.

I'm afraid you've lost them.

Kees

Vista can recognize any disk created by Windows 95, and Word 2003 supports the old Office 95 file types, so it's not a compatibility issue. I suspect the disk simply 'went bad'...a magnetic field could have corrupted/erased it or it could have simply failed with age. It could also be the floppy drive that's gone south, but the disk is, unfortunately, more likely in my experience. I would try another floppy drive and see if that works...even if it's a bum disk I've found some floppy drives 'produce miracles,' so to speak, if you're willing to keep trying.

Good luck.
John