Floppy disk wont open

[proudmary]

Hi all, just found some old floppy discs with photo's on and want to save them onto my pc, my pc keeps telling me A:\ is not accessible no ID mark was found on the floppy disk - can anyone help? What do I need to do, thanks in advance

[sp1214]

Press Start and then My Computer. It will then list all your devices

[sara3]

floppy disks have a little locked/unlocked switch to click on them. make sure the padlock sign is "open"

[SpamBammer]

1) may be a dodgy loose cable to the drive (unlikely)
2) how old are the disks?
3) ive had this problem before, open the metal flap on the disks and give them a good blow, then try again

[SpamBammer]

sounds like a media error/descrepancy with the actual disk

[bathtub]

Maybe the disk has never been formatted? Seems possible, if it has no identifying marks.

[ianmunt]

you could try a file recovery programme,assuming there is some data on the disc.If you google free recovery software there are several programmes to try.

[squarebear]

Depends how old the disks are. Some earlier disks will not work on modern PCs due to different standards.