lane@dalcs.UUCP (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane) (01/05/87)
I recently had to recover a file which had developed a CRC error on one
sector. I tried DOS copy, typeing I for the "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
as well as various things with Norton's Utilities, etc. I finally
succeeded by copying the whole disk with Locksmith's Fast backup
utility. The file on the copy-disk was readable and complete except
for some garbage where the munged sector had been.
Is there an easier way to do this (there should be!). Perhaps, a
software product? Is there anything which duplicates Locksmith's
"fast backup". If nothing else, it's alot faster than MSDOS's
diskcopy. It would be nice to have it a simple utility.
Thanks for any responses.
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Uucp: {seismo,watmath,utai,garfield}!dalcs!lane Csnet: lane%cs.dal.cdn@ubc.csnet zarifes@bnrmtv.UUCP (Kenneth Zarifes) (01/08/87)
> I recently had to recover a file which had developed a CRC error on one > sector. I tried DOS copy, typeing I for the "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" > as well as various things with Norton's Utilities, etc. I finally > succeeded by copying the whole disk with Locksmith's Fast backup > utility. The file on the copy-disk was readable and complete except > for some garbage where the munged sector had been. > > Is there an easier way to do this (there should be!). Perhaps, a > software product? Is there anything which duplicates Locksmith's > "fast backup". If nothing else, it's alot faster than MSDOS's > diskcopy. It would be nice to have it a simple utility. I believe The Mace Utilities includes a utility that will recover files from damaged areas of the disk (and does a rather good job of it too). -- {hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!zarifes --Ken Zarifes