Undamaged, unreadable floppy

[leehinkleman]

Some perl files were stored on a floppy diskette, which had been formatted with
fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
and filesystem then made with
mkfs -t ext2 -m 0 /dev/fd0

After leaving the diskette in the box for about a year,
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy produced the following error:

floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 0, sector 12, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 0, sector 12, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 11
EXT2-fs error (device fd(2,0)): ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode
block - inode=2, block=5
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended

The diskettes were Maxell Windows/MS-DOS formatted 2 HD, MF2-HD
before being reformatted by Linux RedHat7.0.
Could someone please tell me if the perl files can be recovered?
Thanks for your advice.

 

[justice41]

What happened when you ran e2fsck like it recommended?

jaa

 

[leehinkleman]

When e2fsck /dev/fd0 produced the message,
"WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted file system can
cause SEVERE file damage. Are you sure that your really want to
continue(y,n)?" I stopped.
But earlier today, I continued with e2fsck and, after ignoring many bad inodes,
and after repairing many bad sectors, e2fsck finished, and the only data left
on the diskette was the 'lost and found' directory.
The perl files weren't indispensable, but I'm glad the diskette didn't contain a
map to buried treasure.
Thanks for your answer.