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Dave Haynie's DiskSalv is a good repair tool, too!
Dale,
I have had great luck with DiskSalv, and I agree. Once, when I formatted the
first ten cylinders of a packed hard drive, DiskSalv was the only thing that
let me get the rest of the data off the drive. Of course, I needed to borrow a
SyQuest to dump to…
FixDisk is great when you don't have storage to dump to; it fixes most disk
maladies just fine.
Jonathan
Jonathan,
I did a similar thing, but only the first cylinder, before I realised that
I had typed DH0: instead of DF0:. I used Quarterback tools, which saw all
the files on the disk but I couldn't access them in any way. Finally, I
crossed my fingers and did a FORMAT with the QUICK option. This enabled QB
Tools to see all the files as deleted ones, and I was able to recover
everything.
Pete Jones, Brussels, Belgium, flying on AutoPilot
Does DiskSalv still work under 2.1?
—Betty
Yes, I got some stuff saved yesterday.
Pete
Thanks, Pete. I had not tried it under the new software, and had heard a
rumor that it was broken. I'm glad to know it is not.
—Betty
I can't think of any reason that it should have stopped working between
2.0 and 2.1, as nothing changed in the ROM and therefore in the
filesystem. There certainly is a version of DiskSalve that does work with
2.1.
I have heard that Dave is working on a new version and has not yet
finished it, so I wondered. Thanks for the help. Just hadn't needed to
try it since I updated my software.
—Betty