floppys & diskettes

[DPaul]

There is plenty of documentation about ubuntu online

Yes there is, but what the docs say is never exactly the same as the wording you find
inside the system.
However, after a while I found my way via "utilities", "disks", "floppy","check file system", "repair file system"(twice)
Lo and behold, it said "repair succesful". It recovered part of a dbf file. Maybe I will look for a more powerful tool,
to retrieve everything.
So I'll try some more.
Anyway, this exercise showed me that Ubuntu is smooth to work with,
if I had not invested in so much in you know what... I might be tempted.
thx,
Paul