You're posting here and you need a computer to do that. Maybe you can disconnect the c drive from the screwed-up system and install it as a d or e drive in your good system.

Or if you can burn a cd, you can boot from that.

Or you can install a new drive in your screwed-up system and put an os on that and repair the bad drive.

Or you can contact QueTek and let them walk you through an evaluation.

Or you can take the screwed up system to a data recovery company. I'll bet you can find someone to recover the drive for less than $1000. The prices for data recovery have dropped over the past few years for cases where no hardware damage is present.

Buying a floppy may be an option too, but you will use that floppy maybe once a year. Floppies are getting mighty close to punched cards and paper tape. Old formats may never die, but they do fade to insignificance. If you don't have a cd burner, you might want to buy that instead. You will use a cd burner much more than once a year. And I'm not sure if you can fit a data recovery tool on a bootable floppy. But sure that you have a viable plan for that floppy drive.

Hmmm...the last time I backed up the C drive on this laptop I'm using was 12/08/03. Guess I better do another one this weekend. I'd hate to lose a couple of bookmarks or something.