Windows 95 saves the day?
Well we had a flap this afternoon, a company director who absolutely insists on remaining in the sneaker technology of the past saves all his important work on a floppy, which yep you've guess it.... XP says this disk needs to be formatted.
Does he have a backup? No.....
So we try various recovery methods, scandisk, defrag (which it wouldn't do, learnt something new today...), running a backup of it, dos mode etc etc.
On the shelf is a Toshiba 230cx laptop running Windows 95, has 32 MB of RAM in the machine and Office 97...... I wonder.... fired up the laptop, which I have to say booted quicker than anything I've seen running XP.... threw in the floppy, opened explorer and it reads the floppy.
Edit, Copy and Paste to harddrive, all files working and correct. Put in a new floppy and copied them off onto XP machine and then put them onto CD for the director chappy who is so happy I swear he was gonna kiss me.... :eek2:
So moral of the story? We should never have bitched about Windows 95.... XP - faster and more reliable? My ar$e!
