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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 834295" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>To the OP:</p><p></p><p>Assuming the floppy disk is a standard 1.44 MB or 720 K floppy. (If it's an IBM HD 2.88 MB, all bets are off.)</p><p></p><p>Sometimes, a floppy disk formatted and written to on one machine is not recognized on another. This can occur because of head misalignment on the machine it was originally written to. </p><p></p><p>I suggest trying to extract the Excel files from the floppy when it is in the machine where it was originally written to. If that's not possible, you may be able to extract the data using a copy of Norton Utilities. Some versions of NU have a disk low level disk editor (diskedit.exe) which can read files on a floppy such as the one you have.</p><p></p><p>Regards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 834295, member: 46727"] To the OP: Assuming the floppy disk is a standard 1.44 MB or 720 K floppy. (If it's an IBM HD 2.88 MB, all bets are off.) Sometimes, a floppy disk formatted and written to on one machine is not recognized on another. This can occur because of head misalignment on the machine it was originally written to. I suggest trying to extract the Excel files from the floppy when it is in the machine where it was originally written to. If that's not possible, you may be able to extract the data using a copy of Norton Utilities. Some versions of NU have a disk low level disk editor (diskedit.exe) which can read files on a floppy such as the one you have. Regards. [/QUOTE]
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