Problems with floppy drive. "Drive inaccessible" error

I don't understand this. I've got some important files on a floppy that loaded perfectly fine on two different computers the other day. Both puters have win2000. Today I go to looad them and an error comes up saying drive inaccessible. I've tried 3 different puters, including my win98se puter at home and nothing works. I tried copying the disk and got another similar error. Of course being and idiot, I never copied the disk to my HD, which I was going to do today, but now I can't get to the files. Anyone know what's going on? If I right click, and go under properties, it shows in kb that there is something on the disk, but just won't open to the main folder. Even the drive doesn't wind up. Tell me my files aren't history

Run scandisk, including a surface scan, on the floppy and see if it can fix the problem.

Thanks, I'll try that

well i ran the scandisk and it did find errors, but said that it couldn't fix them all. needless to say, i still can't get to my files. how could the disk work one day and then all of the sudden poop out?

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Originally posted by jzinckgra
well i ran the scandisk and it did find errors, but said that it couldn't fix them all. needless to say, i still can't get to my files. how could the disk work one day and then all of the sudden poop out?

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Cause it's a floppy...that's why. They are generally pretty unrealiable. I would never store anything important on one unless I absolutely had to. I'd say you are SOL...unfortunately.

jack_flack

Don't every use floppies. Dust, heat, pressure or a magnetic field will all ruin a disk.