please help to unformat a formated disk

[Alam]

Please could some one tell me how to unformat
a formatted standard 1.44mb floppy disk.

[FRENCHMAN]

INSERT FLOPPY IN DRIVE CLICK ON THE MY COMPUTER ICON WHEN IT OPENS CLICK ON 3/1/2
FLOPPY ICON THIS WILL SHOW YOU WHAT IS ON DISK. TO FORMATT OR DELETE WHAT IS ON DISC
SELECT EDIT. CLICK ON ALL SUBJECTS THIS WILL
HYLITE ALL MATERIAL ON DISC THEN CLICK ON
FILE CLICK ON DELETE SAY GOODBY -----DONE
ANOTHER WAY WHEN DISC IS OPEN DRAG AND DROP
EACH ITEM TO RECYCLE BIN-------HAVE FUN

[dale]

I think the previous poster mis-read your request. Windows, to my knowledge, has no built-in unformat capability. You will need to buy something like Norton Utilities to do that. I haven't use Norton in a while, but it used to have this capability and assume it still does :-)

dale

[dale]

Found this on another forum related to Norton Utilities:

Unformatting a drive which was formatted by mistake with Norton Utility:
Do not try Unerase or anything else on the drive. Turn off your computer:
Case 1: Internal drives or A:/ drive, reboot your computer with Norton Rescue disk #1. Then follow the instruction on your screen for Unformat Menu.
Case 2: you formatted by mistake an external drive, like a SCSI Castlewood Orb or an Iomega Jazz or Zip drive. In that case you will have to use the Copy Disk Command to copy the original Norton Rescue disk. Delete the help files (not enough room on the diskette) Then you will have to copy onto that diskette the Files aspi8dos.sys and aspidisk.sys, they are the SCSI DOS drivers which can be found either in your Adaptec DOS software or (may be) in your Windows 9X CD-ROM.
Edit your config.sys file by adding the two following lines:
Device=aspi8.sys
Device=aspidisk.sys
Reboot your computer, follow the instruction for Unformat, et voilà!
Please note that the new version of System Works is a bootable CD-ROM (if your BIOS supports CD-ROM boot.) It will perform identically for internal EIDE drives. I have no idea as to how to make a bootable CD-ROM with the above mentioned changes for SCSI drives, still have to use a Diskette.
By the way I believe that this is one of Norton Utilities best-kept secrets!