deleted 3 1/2 disc

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MatthewG

i am in the middle of a huge college senior project
(poetry) and my computer says that word shut down
abnormally and is now open in safe mode. i typed my
poems and ate dinner, but then word shut down again. so
i started it back up, and it would not let me open the
floppy drive i saved on (so i could work at school, home,
work, etc.). it said these files were auto recovered.
so i tried to save them and it said that i did not have
access to this drive, i need to access the
administrator. then the files disappeared. i tried to
reopen them but it says that my disc is not formatted and
that it is blank. i need these poems back in 8 hours and
i just spent 5 working on them. please help.
 
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RWN

Mathew;
Never save or open directly to/from a floppy (or any removable media).
Always save to and open from the HD.
Save to the HD and copy to the floppy and copy from the floppy to the HD
and open from there.
 
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Charles Kenyon

Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings: chances are your work is unrecorded
history.

If you want to be able to use your documents, when working with in Word, act
as if your floppy drive does not exist. (This applies to CDRW/CDR drives as
well.)
Don't use Word to:
Open a document on a floppy
Print a document on a floppy
Edit a document on a floppy
Save a document to a floppy (not even a copy)

Word regularly trashes documents on floppy drives!

Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth
using Windows.

I know that for some with shared computers (libraries) this is a tough
prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new formatted
disk each time you save and don't do any editing.
 
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