Floppy made on Win 98/Word 02 won't open on Win XP/Word 2003?

[KathyinDubbo]

I have a number of floppy's made on my old computer - Win 98 with Word 2002 -
which will not open on the new computer with Win XP/Word 2003. Message which
comes up says disk not formatted for Windows. Yet I have other floppies
which will open, no problems! Is the floppy corrupted? Or is there another
trick to open these floppies? They are the most important files I have on
floppy, of course!

 

[Jezebel]

If you have tried opening Word documents on the floppy directly from Word,
or the files were originally put there by saving direct from Word, then
chances are the floppies are coprrupt and your files are lost.

Trying using Explorer to copy the files from floppy to your hard disk; the
try opening them from there. If you can't do that original copy, throw the
floppy away and rationalise away the ostensible importance of those files.
By definition, if you've lost them they are not important.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Did you copy the files within Windows Explorer or do a save directly to the
floppy within Word?

And how are you trying to open the files? Copied over to your hard drive or
opened straight from the floppy?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Never ever read from, write to, or print from floppy with Word. These are
the most certain methods of ensuring document corruption.

Copy to the hard disc and work on the document from there.

This is equally relevant to other removable media such as CDRW.

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[KathyinDubbo]

Have tried that before, and have now tried again. Just asks if I want to
format disK. So I guess you are right, in that the files are lost.

 

[Graham Mayor]

You *may* be able to recover some of the files from that disc with file
recovery software.

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