Data on a 3.5 diskette
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From: Den on 5 Mar 2010 15:06 I realize this may be somewhat old school, but I have a problem with some data on a 3.5 diskette using WinXP. I put some personal data in a '.xls' file on a 3.5 diskette and update it every now and then. The other day when I put the disk in to enter some new data, I received the following error msg: "book1.xls" cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the document is stored on may not be responding. My options at this point are "RETRY" or "CANCEL". I check the disk drive with other diskettes to see if it worked with them, and they opened fine. I copied another *.xls file to the diskette to see if I could access it, and it worked fine. I had no problem opening the 2nd xls file on the diskette. I ran error checking on the disk, and it came up clean. I tried disk-copy with no luck either. Can anyone help me with this, or advise me where I can get help? Thank you! Dennis
From: DL on 5 Mar 2010 15:18 Presumably you tried to copy back to your HD, via command prompt? Personally I would'nt edit any file stored on a floppy, niether would I use a floppy or USB stick to store critical data, only for use in copying data from A to B "Den" <dcfz52(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:e1RMm9JvKHA.5340(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >I realize this may be somewhat old school, but I have a problem with some >data on a 3.5 diskette using WinXP. I put some personal data in a '.xls' >file on a 3.5 diskette and update it every now and then. The other day >when I put the disk in to enter some new data, I received the following >error msg: "book1.xls" cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or >you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the >document is stored on may not be responding. My options at this point are >"RETRY" or "CANCEL". > > I check the disk drive with other diskettes to see if it worked with them, > and they opened fine. I copied another *.xls file to the diskette to see > if I could access it, and it worked fine. I had no problem opening the > 2nd xls file on the diskette. I ran error checking on the disk, and it > came up clean. I tried disk-copy with no luck either. Can anyone help me > with this, or advise me where I can get help? > > Thank you! > Dennis
From: Anthony Buckland on 5 Mar 2010 15:16 "Den" <dcfz52(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:e1RMm9JvKHA.5340(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >I realize this may be somewhat old school, but I have a problem with some >data on a 3.5 diskette using WinXP. I put some personal data in a '.xls' >file on a 3.5 diskette and update it every now and then. The other day >when I put the disk in to enter some new data, I received the following >error msg: "book1.xls" cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or >you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the >document is stored on may not be responding. My options at this point are >"RETRY" or "CANCEL". > > I check the disk drive with other diskettes to see if it worked with them, > and they opened fine. I copied another *.xls file to the diskette to see > if I could access it, and it worked fine. I had no problem opening the > 2nd xls file on the diskette. I ran error checking on the disk, and it > came up clean. I tried disk-copy with no luck either. Can anyone help me > with this, or advise me where I can get help? > > Thank you! > Dennis You didn't say whether you had checked the properties of the offending file, to see whether you had accidentally set it to read-only. Regarding copying the file, what happened when you tried? Did it decline to copy? Did it create another file, also unusable?
From: EN59CVH on 5 Mar 2010 18:01 DL wrote: > > Personally I would'nt edit any file stored on a floppy, niether would I use > a floppy or USB stick to store critical data, only for use in copying data > from A to B who cares what you do or not do. USB sticks are meant to create backups and there is nothing wrong to edit files directly on them. You are jobless drug junkie and consequently without any brains. Your opinion is not important here.
From: EN59CVH on 5 Mar 2010 18:14
I suggest boot up your system in safe mode and then copy everything from the flash-drive to your HD in a temporary folder. Then perform a quick format on your flash drive before re-using it. You can then put everything back on this drive and you will be able to access your files. It looks like you pulled the flash drive from the USB port before doing the Safe Removal Operation. hth Den wrote: > > I realize this may be somewhat old school, but I have a problem with some > data on a 3.5 diskette using WinXP. I put some personal data in a '.xls' > file on a 3.5 diskette and update it every now and then. The other day when > I put the disk in to enter some new data, I received the following error > msg: "book1.xls" cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or you may > be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the document is > stored on may not be responding. My options at this point are "RETRY" or > "CANCEL". > > I check the disk drive with other diskettes to see if it worked with them, > and they opened fine. I copied another *.xls file to the diskette to see if > I could access it, and it worked fine. I had no problem opening the 2nd > xls file on the diskette. I ran error checking on the disk, and it came up > clean. I tried disk-copy with no luck either. Can anyone help me with this, > or advise me where I can get help? > > Thank you! > Dennis |