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5 1/4 inch drive recovery problems
Name: Gijs Date: November 18, 2000 at 08:56:49 Pacific
Comment:
Hi, Am running W98 2nd edition on a p3. I've got some old MS-Dos 3.3 5 1/4 inch disks I'd like to backup to a newer media. Now every time I trie to access any 5 1/4 disk through explorer it says that the disks aren't formatted. I've downloaded several tools like disk saver, final data, EasyRecovery etc., but none of them seems to work. Anybody got any ideas? Thank you, Gijs
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