I've just been refused access to a floppy that I've used for years. The message says "Access has been changed or tampered with". Help!! This is really important. Help, Help!!!

Ooo! Serious lesson learned. Floppys are NOT a reliable way to store anything critical, several CD-R's are better. I'm assuming you are trying to open a FM file and are getting an "Access privileges damaged" error message (you didn't specify the application giving the message, platform, or version).

First I would try copying the file to the hard drive and try to open and or recover this copy. This is less dangerous and does alter the floppy copy.

Next, try to recover the file or run Norton on the floppy. I would probably run Norton first, you might be able to find a lost sector in the map, if this is the problem.

Again, the lesson is never to depend on a single copy, especially one stored on a floppy disk.

-bd

This version of FM is 3.0, running in W2K. It won't let me copy to the HD. I've also run the recovery function, which appeared to work, but it still denied access. I guess I'll try Norton, now. I have an older copy of the database file, but am trying to avoid hours of reconstruction.

When you say "It won't let me copy to the hard drive", by "It" do you mean the operating system? I'm trying to distinguish whether the problem is with FM's file protection or the operating system's protection. Please be as specific as you can. And REALLY, don't use floppys for backups and keep multiple copies of every critical file!

-bd

Sorry I was not more specific. When I tried to copy the file to the hard drive, I got the error message "Cannot copy Fhs1958(latest): Error performing inpage operation." This happened both when I just tried to drag and drop it, and when I tried to send it to "My documents".