D. J. Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 I did a really stupid thing. Awhile back, I bought some new floppies for my digital camera, and didn't notice that they were Mac formatted until I got them home. Okay, no big deal. I simply slipped each one into the PC and reformatted them all. Or so I thought. Today was my husband's company Christmas party and he wanted to take the camera. I sent it off with four blank floppies so he'd have planty of storage. Later, he called and said he couldn't open one of the disks. He could see the pictures on the camera's view screen, but not on his comp. It seems I missed one of the disk in this reformatting process, and of course it's the one he had. But he really wants the pictures that are on it. Now, the weird part. I knew the camera itself was reading this disk because he and I both looked at them on the LCD screen. I also knew there was a copy feature in the camera. Technical whiz kid that I am, I was going to surprise him by copying the pictures over to another Windows formatted floppy. But I only managed to get one of them copied over before the camera too quit reading the disk. So, does anyone here know any secret tricks or work-arounds I could possibly use to get these files open? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmanmcp Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 Do you have a friend who has a Windows and a Mac networked together. With a network you can share the files from the floppy to the floppy on the Windows PC easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lishikawa Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 There really is no easy answer. Years ago central point made an ISA based board that could duplicate floppies and read mac floppies. I think I threw it out recently because I don't have systems with ISA anymore! I found the following tools, but I am not certain whether they work, or how good they are. 1. http://www.emulators.com/download.htm (30 day trial) 2. http://www.macdisk.com/mden.php3 (pay) As for the floppy drive, the mac and pc floppy drives are pretty much identical. Years ago Sony was the leading 3.5" floppy drive maker and provided the drive to Mac. Now a days there are tons of drives from various manufactures like Teac, and Mitsui (along with others). I can't say 100% if all floppy drives are the same but you could always purchase a usb floppy drive that supports windows and mac. And many macs no longer have floppy drive built in. It's an USB add-on and chances are your mac buddies will sneer and spit at you for even thinking about floppies. If you were my friend, I'd copy the files using my mac mini and my usb floppy drive. (It's the best web server ever! Only if I can compile teamspeak on it...) Oh, and I have a backup floppy drive just in case my bios fries... But when something can read it for a while and starts to fail, I tend to be question the media itself. But it never hurts to try the free stuff first... Leigh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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