You perhaps could use a utility like Norton Disk Doctor to
read the binary contents of the data sectors on the floppy
and could recover some of the data in that fashion.  It
would just be ASCII data and parts may be scattered over
the disk.  I think that is how some data re4covery
companies operate.

Doug

At 5/18/2002 12:17 PM, AMD950 wrote:

Oh, I see, in a word I'm (expletive grudgingly deleted).
 The files
contains personal data and is not replaceable and I can't
pass the cost of
recovery along.  Do you what tools these recovery
specialist utilize?  And,
again,thanks for the reply.

>   These "subsequent accesses" don't just include READs.
 They include
>WRITING the updated index when a change is made to a file
on the
>disk. The OS assumes that the cached index info is
correct, and that
>it can allocate new files/blocks and update the index on
the disk,
>based on that cached info.
>   Even though MOST of the data blocks of your old files
are probably
>still on the drive, the information which linked them
together as
>files has been written over with the FAT info for another
diskette.
>
>   It's possible that a professional "data recovery"
outfit could
>help, especially if you're willing to give them lots of
money.
>
>David Gillett

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