David I assume you are running some version of the dreaded windows :-)) Can I suggest you do what I have just done in a similar position.......Insert a Linux "Live" CD (this is one that will run using only memory and taking the system from the Cd without touching the HD) You need to set the bios to boot from CD and you will find you can access the folders and files. Linux will read all windows file systems. You can then trannsfer the files onto a USB memory stick or external drive. It is a bit slower that normal because quite a lot of memory will be being used by the system and is not available for caching the copy process.
As many Linux adherents say "the best tool to sort out messed up Windows systems is Linux!!" ....BTW I uses Unbuntu 9.10 the latest release, and readily available. Best Wishes Alan G3NYK --- On Fri, 4/12/09, David C. Partridge <david.partri...@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > From: David C. Partridge <david.partri...@dsl.pipex.com> > Subject: [time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive > To: teksco...@yahoogroups.com, hp_agilent_equipm...@yahoogroups.com, > "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'" <time-nuts@febo.com> > Date: Friday, 4 December, 2009, 13:42 > Internal 3.5" LS-120 Superdisk floppy > drive (ideally with black front, but > ...). I'm after one in the standard 3.5" > floppy drive size, not laptop. > > The one in my main system just died :-(. I have a lot > of stuff on LS-120 > disks, and while I can read them on a system in another > room and network the > files it is rather a PITA (plus it is probably only a > matter of time until > that one dies too). > > I will remove the dead one and look for any obvious > problems, but I'm not > optimistic. > > I am in the UK not the USA by the way. > > Please respond off-list. > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
