The need for floppy disk recovery has obviously decreased as more powerful portable digital Storage Media has been developed. And of course those new media devices such as USB flash drives and SD memory cards hold an almost infinitely larger amount of data. Still many people have important records stored on 3.5 inch floppy discs, and these disks are just as apt to have data lost on them as any other type of media. With that in mind begin the process of floppy disk recovery with a physical examination of the disk itself. The magnetic platter inside of the plastic container should be able to spin easily when the point of a pen is placed into the small rectangle on the bottom side of the disk. In fact it is always a good idea to rotate the inner platter a few times before attempting to find files on a floppy disk that has been sitting around for a bit of time. Next insert the floppy disk into the internal or external drive that you use to run it from. Now, direct your data recovery tool to scan through the drive the floppy disk has been inserted into. Because a floppy disk holds only 1.44 MB of data, the actual time spent for scanning is incredibly small but this is countered by the time we must spend waiting for the disk itself to spin around and be read by our floppy disk drive’s magnetic head. Attempts at recovery of deleted files from floppy disks should be repeated as the very nature of floppy disk construction lends itself to false reads.