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[labRat]

If only Willie Nelson were a nerd.

Question: I'm trying to copy over a file from a floppy disk onto my hard drive and I get the following error:
Cannot copy 8772: Error performing inpage operation

The file is named 8772.dat
The other files from the disk were copyable, but not this one - and the file is not Read Only. I'm running Win2k

Help?

Thanks.

 

[Rosey]

have you tried rebooting your computer without saving any of your open files?

 

[Ditto Much]

try using xcopy, move, or rename.

(in the case of move or rename remember to copy the file back)

 

[labRat]

try using:
xcopy
nope
move
nope
or rename
nope
Thanks for the ideas though.

and i did not reset before saving a file. it's a disk from a vendor and i'm trying to copy over the files. i've tried two machines.

anything else? bueller?

 

[Ditto Much]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by *labRat*:
try using:
xcopy
nope
move
nope
or rename
nope
Thanks for the ideas though.

and i did not reset before saving a file. it's a disk from a vendor and i'm trying to copy over the files. i've tried two machines.

anything else? bueller?</font>

Nope disk is fucked

 

[silver1]

The floppy could be physically damaged. Try running some disk tools (eg. Scandisk) on it to see if there's a physical problem with it.

Otherwise, use "Diskcopy" to copy the entire floppy to another one and start from scratch again.

 

[labRat]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by silver1:
The floppy could be physically damaged. Try running some disk tools (eg. Scandisk) on it to see if there's a physical problem with it.</font>

tommy is the weiner. thanks. ran scandisk and there were a few bad clusters. was abel to copy the file over, but i'm not sure if it fixed the errors.

the program comes up with errors, but that could be from a few things. and the errors are in japanese - since i don't have a japanese version of windows it just comes up with various ascii errors.

thanks for the help.

--craig