"Sjouke Burry" wrote in message
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On 5-11-2017 20:03, Ian Field wrote:


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On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 18:15:25 -0000, "Ian Field"
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"Bob F" wrote in message
news 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.

Norton Utilities NDD works well for recovering floppies.

You need the old 16 bit NU suite - I'd probably build up an old 16 bit
PC
to
go with it as well. You can still find DOS online.

Recent issues of the windows OS restrict port access and will probably
heavily impact NU - if you want to use Win; You may have to go as far
back
as Win ME.

I'd use Win98se, not WinME.
If you have an old computer to use for this, go to a search engine and
search for "Abandonware". I found one site (maybe more) that has the old
versions of Norton Utilities, Win98, and all the Dos versions you will
ever need. All free to download. I have to question the legality of
this, but I am not going to worry about it. Some of the software on
there is truly abandoned. The companies no longer exist. But I do
question the legality of having Win98 on there and maybe even Norton
stuff.

Peter Norton's company was taken over by Symantec who CBA doing viable NU
beyond 16bit. It would've been better if they had abandoned it.

Still have NU on two of my dos computers

NU and Xtree were on the first (pre XT) IBM PC I rescued from the tip - NU
never really made any progress from way back then. The, apparently for
windows offering under the Symantec banner was more or less useless. NDD and
Calibrate were absent, and the few remaining diagnostic and repair tools
were mere ghosts of the old DOS versions.