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Tizwit
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:29 am Reply with quote

A friend of mine is running into a problem accessing files on a floppy.

She is getting the 1122 Error:

A:\ is not accessible
No ID Address mark was found on the floppy disk


Any way to get the data off or is she pretty much screwed?

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:50 am Reply with quote

There are several disk recovery utilities, even some that are free. The ones that aren't free usually let you see what can be recovered and allow you to recover after getting a license.

Here's a free one, though I'm not sure if it works with floppies.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:14 pm Reply with quote

kguske wrote:
There are several disk recovery utilities, even some that are free. The ones that aren't free usually let you see what can be recovered and allow you to recover after getting a license.

Here's a free one, though I'm not sure if it works with floppies.


Nope this one won't work on Floppies.. But I will check on others later.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:27 pm Reply with quote

How important are the files? Meaning...for only 1.44MB of data, is it really worth the money?

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:12 am Reply with quote

In some situations it can be very important. This stuff for her had School and work items on it and she wanted to move it over to a jump drive and when she tried she ran into the errors.

Oh well. lol
 
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:09 pm Reply with quote

well what i could find about this is that you should check your cable to the floppy drive...
its a very common error as it seems..
that doesnt mean it will solve it in your case..

And another person said :

    Specific to the ID Address mark problem:

    This problem occurs on disks that do not contain a media descriptor byte in the BIOS parameter block (BPB) of the boot sector.
    Some older preformatted floppy disks do not contain a media descriptor byte.
    Older product disks may also not have the media descriptor byte. "

    The media descriptor indicates the type of medium currently in a drive.
    With MS-DOS and Windows 95, you do not have to set the media descriptor byte.
    Therefore this problem does not occur with these older operating systems.
    The media descriptor byte is located in the BPB of the boot sector at offset 21 (15h) and in the first byte of each FAT on the disk.


And another resource said:

Go to Control Panel and go to devices and select the floppy disk controller.
Update the floppy disk controller driver and select location to get windows update.
 
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:15 pm Reply with quote

I'm sorry but I couldn't resist this on the title of this topic.

Solution:

Viagra??

You can delete this now......LMFAO...

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:16 am Reply with quote

not funny Dauthus...
 
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:35 pm Reply with quote

Ok, then...

Just a shot in the dark here but what OS is she running?

Older versions of Windows like 9x do not check for the media descriptor byte. Newer versions like 2000/XP do check for it before a read.

See if she has access to an older 9x machine to access the files. If she does, pull the files off and reformat the floppy with a FULL format. Not a quick one. Copy the files back on and they should be readable now on her machine.

If that doesn't work, I'd say she is hosed. This is a formatting flaw with some vendors on an older batch of floppies.
 
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:38 pm Reply with quote

I talked to her about this she is going to see what she can find.

Thank you all for the help
 
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