I saved a file on a 3.5 diskette in 1996. Now when I try to open it I tells me that the disc needs formatting, which would eliminate can data. Is it possible to recover the data?

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Your problem is almost certainly that the disk contains not one
the media descriptor byte. See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=140060

To resolve this issue, format a different diskette on your current computer,
then find a place where a computer that is running Windows 95 or 98. Take the
diskette, you can read as well as you just formatted than 95
or 98 computer and copy the first of these.

You will be able to read the diskette copied to your power source
machine.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

Tags: Windows

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