everytime i load up or put in a floppy disk it tells me the drive is not acessable. When I run the scan disk it tells me ''scan disk can no longer read or write from sector 18,19,20 etc of the file allocation table'' I have really important coursework onto a disk and badly need to load it up onto my pc. It was ok, but I think when I put in a disk before it just went weird n messed up. I have tryed loading up other disks but will not load. Could anybody help me please?

Sounds like a bad floppy drive to me, but what do i know.

You can try Teledisk image program or disk dumper to copy the defective diskette to a new one by making an image first and see if anything can be salvaged.I don't advise trying to correct a bad fat on a diskette,you will loose all its content:work from the image.The program is used from dos and makes an exact copy sector by sector.You then create a new diskette from the image.Versions up to 2.16 are shareware on the web.(Winimage works from known good diskettes)New Technologies Inc.sells v2.22 and it is not shareware anymore. http://computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/42582.html http://sac-ftp.externet.hu/utildisk13.html http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/8752/msx/msxdownother.html http://retrograde.trustno1.org/programs.htm http://www.worldofspectrum.org/trdos.html http://www.fpns.net/willy/wteledsk.htm Good luck.