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My daughter has lost a Pascal assignment which was on a floppy disc. (Windows).

I've tried dosfsck -r -v /dev/fd0. I get:

Code:

davcefai:/home/david# dosfsck -r -v /dev/fd0

dosfsck 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)

dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN

Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem

Boot sector contents:

System ID ",9A6+IHC"

Media byte 0xf0 (5.25" or 3.5" HD floppy)

      512 bytes per logical sector

      512 bytes per cluster

        1 reserved sector

First FAT starts at byte 512 (sector 1)

        2 FATs, 12 bit entries

      4608 bytes per FAT (= 9 sectors)

Root directory starts at byte 9728 (sector 19)

      224 root directory entries

Data area starts at byte 16896 (sector 33)

      2847 data clusters (1457664 bytes)

18 sectors/track, 2 heads

        0 hidden sectors

      2880 sectors total

Got 3072 bytes instead of 4274 at 5120

davcefai:/home/david#

with no option to repair.

Can anybody suggest a way to recover the files from the floppy?