how to recover data from floppy disk that says it is not formatted

probably before the internet became a thing I used so anything but current as far as model numbers, or what people have done with a raspberry pi/arduino bolted onto things, or maybe what might be done with non PC systems if they were a bit more raw in approach. I have not paid attention to anything here since. If it really is just MBR and not anything fun with a file system you might be able to graft an example one on and then do some kind of virtual mount (or write to a real one if you are really bored) but I will join with the others above and note it is rarely going to be that easy. Get a nice little raw dump there before firing it through whatever file analysis (or your manual hex editor scan to do the same). Most readers and Windows based APIs are going to be relying on what it tells you.Īfter the obvious check film get rid of fluff then some of the fun raw read stuff made to defeat spiral track anti piracy or do things like dump amiga/non MS DOS systems on Windows would probably be where I start for this one.

How to recover data from floppy disk that says it is not formatted