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Anyone know of a good free utility that will recover files from floppy disks? or hard disks for that matter. What are the best file recovery programs out there? Thanks.
 
I work part time supervising a computer lab at my University and lots of students come to me with floppy disks that either can't be read by windows or a certain file cant be read. I always tell them not to use floppy disks and sometimes I can save there data and sometimes I cant. Is there a utillity that can recover data from floppy disks that is free?
 
Do you know any sources of free cars that run well?

Point is, you get what you pay for. There are some great free utilities out there, yes. But not for what you're looking to do. Try the Free Trial of Bad Copy Pro http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/
 
I had a good link on some good programs.. but I can't find it (think it is on old computer).

This is all I got. Someone lists different data recovery software here:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Q_21012094.html

davidlem said:
Do you know any sources of free cars that run well?
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Software is a lot different than a car.. there's a lot of freeware that runs great. Linux is a pretty good example. Some argue that it is the best.
 
ChingChang said:
Software is a lot different than a car.. there's a lot of freeware that runs great. Linux is a pretty good example. Some argue that it is the best.
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I agree, software is a lot different than a car. But the analogy still works in the most basic sense.

Linux is a great project. And yes you can get it for free. But unlike floppy disk recovery software, people are more likely to devote some free time to the project because of the widespread impact it can have on the computing industry. Recovering a file off some student's aged floppy disk isn't something that a group of coders are going to pour blood, sweat, and tears into for decades to perfect. It just doesn't have the same flare to it. Especially when software like BadCopyPro exists and does an arguably excellent job - affordably.
 
I agree, if its affordable software that you can use fairly simply, and your going to be using it alot, it's likely worth the cost. You can however possibly recover it in a more manual, PITA way, but using dd to dump the filesystem of the floppy, and using a hex editor get all the parts of the file and recover it that way (actually covered that in OS this past week while talking about filesystems).
 
Xipher said:
I agree, if its affordable software that you can use fairly simply, and your going to be using it alot, it's likely worth the cost. You can however possibly recover it in a more manual, PITA way, but using dd to dump the filesystem of the floppy, and using a hex editor get all the parts of the file and recover it that way (actually covered that in OS this past week while talking about filesystems).
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This is true, this method can work. But when working with old floppies you're talking degraded media which dd is not designed to deal with. If dd can't get a clean image of the filesystem, the data will not be in satisfactory shape and will result in an incomplete, if even partial, recovery. In other words, you're fighting a physical problem with a logical tool not familiar with your specific circumstance.
 
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