ELDAD@TAUNIVM.BITNET ("Eldad Salzmann -3-494520", +972) (02/05/89)
- - The original note follows - - Currently I'm trying to help someone recover from loss of data: a diskette was damaged by a bad disk drive. Both FATs were DESTROYED (and also several clusters). I'm referring to a DISKETTE, not to a hard disk. I think that Norton's TS (TextSearch) would be the right utility to use in this case. But I got also suggestions to use PCTools and Mace. What options should I use? FIND? I think that the right option in the Mace utilities would be RECLAIM, but I'm not certain. Any suggestions? Eldad Salzmann <Eldad@TAUNIVM>
barry@dgbt.uucp (Barry Mclarnon) (02/13/89)
From article <8902051035.AA22981@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by ELDAD@TAUNIVM.BITNET ("Eldad Salzmann -3-494520", +972):
> Currently I'm trying to help someone recover from loss of data: a diskette
> was damaged by a bad disk drive. Both FATs were DESTROYED
> that Norton's TS (TextSearch) would be the right utility to use in this
> ...
Norton's TS won't do any good. What you need is the NU main program from
the Norton Utilities Advanced Edition. You have to start it in maintenance
mode with the /M switch. You can then examine the disk, sector by sector,
for the text data you want, and save it to a file on another disk. I've
used it in the situation you describe, with good success. Good luck!
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