"mike" wrote in message
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On 11/4/2017 11:05 AM, Bob F wrote:
I have an old floppy disk that I need to recover the files for an old
piece of equipment from. Can anyone recommend any program that would
likely be able to recover the files from this floppy disk. This is, I
suspect, just a problem from age of the disk.
try cleaning the drive
or another drive

There is a Cleaner program that vibrates the heads at ultrasonic frequency
that magnifies the effect of felt cleaning disks - but it damages 5.25"
drives.

It won't work on recent M$ OS because they restrict port access.

These sort of jobs are best done on an old machine set up for the purpose.
There's online archives containing DOS and early versions of Windows.