Duff Floppy

I think my other half inadvertently removed a floppy from the 'A' drive
before the light went out and now we cannot access it. Is there any software
or means out there whereby we can recover the data on it.
Thanks
Alan

"Alan" wrote in message
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I think my other half inadvertently removed a floppy from the 'A' drive
before the light went out and now we cannot access it. Is there any
software
or means out there whereby we can recover the data on it.

About 20 years ago there were MS-DOS utilities to
copy 5-inch floppies, errors and all. This allowed
us to recover data by manipulating the duplicate,
leaving the source disk intact. These utilities went
out of use as Win95 came to dominate the market,
but might have been saved for historical purposes.
Univ. of Marburg (Germany) used to house one such
archive.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ata+recover y

Ben

"Alan" wrote in message ...
I think my other half inadvertently removed a floppy from the 'A' drive
before the light went out and now we cannot access it. Is there any software
or means out there whereby we can recover the data on it.
Thanks
Alan

Thanks for your help. I have tried a number of alternatives and most of them
say the floppy has nothing on it, which is even more strange as it was full.
Never mind.
Alan
"Ben Myers" wrote in message
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ata+recover y

Ben

"Alan" wrote in message
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I think my other half inadvertently removed a floppy from the 'A' drive
before the light went out and now we cannot access it. Is there any
software
or means out there whereby we can recover the data on it.
Thanks
Alan

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:16:36 -0000, "Alan"
put finger to keyboard and
composed:

Thanks for your help. I have tried a number of alternatives and most of them
say the floppy has nothing on it, which is even more strange as it was full.
Never mind.
Alan
"Ben Myers" wrote in message
...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ata+recover y

Ben

"Alan" wrote in message
...
I think my other half inadvertently removed a floppy from the 'A' drive
before the light went out and now we cannot access it. Is there any
software
or means out there whereby we can recover the data on it.
Thanks
Alan

You can use the following procedure, from a DOS prompt, to dump the
first sector of the root directory.

debug
-L 100 0 12 1
-D 100 2ff
-Q

If your data is not sensitive, I would be happy to help you recover it
.... if you could send me an image of your diskette. Otherwise I
suggest you find a utility to image your diskette to a 1.44MB file on
your hard disc and then use an editor to search for text strings,
assuming your data are documents.

One such utility is Diskcopy.exe which ships with FreeDOS:
http://users.pandora.be/imre/FreeDOS/dkcp092x.zip

The following command creates an image file named floppy.img:

diskcopy a: floppy.img

You could view this file with DOS Edit as follows:

edit /r /64 floppy.img

- Franc Zabkar
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On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:08:33 +1100, Franc Zabkar
put finger to keyboard and composed:

You can use the following procedure, from a DOS prompt, to dump the
first sector of the root directory.

debug
-L 100 0 12 1

Sorry, that should have been ...

-L 100 0 13 1

-D 100 2ff
-Q

- Franc Zabkar
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Might check this out [no personal recommendation extended]:

Systech Software - rfd14.zip - http://www.come.to/ssoftware
http://www.bestdiskrecovery.com/downloads/rfd14.exe

RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk Version 1.4 - for 12-Bit and 16-Bit FAT file
systems under DOS, WIN 3.1, WIN 3.11, WIN 95, WIN 95-OSR2, WIN 98(SE)


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"Alan" wrote in message
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| I think my other half inadvertently removed a floppy from the 'A' drive
| before the light went out and now we cannot access it. Is there any
software
| or means out there whereby we can recover the data on it.
| Thanks
| Alan
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