ZIP Floppy Disk Data Recovery

Although now more and more advanced storage technology has appeared, you have many ways to store your data, however, due to various reasons, new storage media temporarily can not able to replace the floppy disk. Floppy disk has the advantage of convenient, easy to carry and its price is very cheap, still occupy important storage market share. The most important point is that almost every computer is equipped with a 1.44 M floppy disk drive, it is the most convenient choice to backup a small amount of data with floppy disk.

The storage data on Floppy disk very easily lost, If the data is very important and you have not backuped it, the important thing is of how to rescue or recover the floppy data. Now widely used floppy disk is a 3.5-inch disk with a 1.44M storage space, after formatting a floppy disk, it is logically divided into three parts: TRACK, HEAD and SECTOR.

General said, floppy disk was damaged and the loss of data can be divided into three categories:

1.

Zero track bad, unable to see the drive and list directory, the general error message display on screen is "General Failure error Reading drive A Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
2.

One part of a floppy disk damage and directory can be listed , but there are a certain number of a file or several files can not be readed or damaged or read the paper after the, the general error message is "Sector not found error Reading drive A Abort, Retry, Ignore?" or "Data error Reading drive A Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
3.

Physical damage, to restore floppy disk data needs the help of some disk data recovery software.