jchoi@ics.uci.edu (John Choi) (12/07/90)
Help. I need to recover a bunch of files on a disk whose directory
information is corrupted. I used Copy ][ 5.0 to recover some of the data
but there's a lot more I really, really need. The directory is written
on track 17 which has sectors 7 and 15 damaged. I get a disk error #8 when
ever it tries to read the directory. I can't seem to write to these sectors
even though the disk itself is physically fine (I made a bit copy of the
original disk.) I can read and write to other sectors using the Sector Editor
but can't write to thesee.
My Questions are :
1. Is there a program which will allow me to write to these damaged sectors
or better yet, that can reconstruct the directory information?
2. If not, is there a program which can read the data sector by sector and
copy that information as a file onto another disk?
The files that I need recovered are just 3k text files containing a long list
of integers. There's about 40 of these files on the disk and I need to get
about 20 more recovered. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I haven't
worked with an apple ][ for about 10 year; I'm trying to help out a friend
who has (had?) about 3 months worth of work on this one floppy which went bad.
Thanks. Please email responses. Info: Apple ][e w/2 drives, dos 3.3, only
have Locksmith with Copy ][ + 5.0.
- John Choi
jchoi@ics.uci.edu
(714)856-7473jon@pro-ice.cts.com (Jon Spatz) (12/11/90)
In-Reply-To: message from jchoi@ics.uci.edu Try Mr. Fixit... (Comes with Prosel) try Copy ][+ 9.1 (Little Better thwn 5.0) If any of them are appleworks files with might need repairworks.. DONT USE BAG OF TRICKS... (That how my drive has 8 bad blocks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ProLine: jon@pro-ice | Jon Spatz (jon) | Do you fall Internet: jon@pro-ice.cts.com | pro-ice.cts.com | asleep on the UUCP: crash!pro-ice!jon | (215)/562-4928 | toilet while ARPA: crash!pro-ice!jon@nosc.mil | 300 to 9600 Baud | eating OREO's? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
gammal@CAM.ORG (Michael Gammal) (12/23/90)
The article mentioning bad sectors....the 3 programs I suggest which will fix this. 1: Lifesaver v2.0 (an dos program but fixes tracks) 2: Dark 2.1 (or earlier) 3: Mister Fixit Good Luck! -- Michael Gammal Concordia University M.Gammal@CAM.ORG
greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) (01/02/91)
In <1990Dec23.031430.12572@CAM.ORG> gammal@CAM.ORG (Michael Gammal) writes: >The article mentioning bad sectors....the 3 programs I suggest which will >fix this. >1: Lifesaver v2.0 (an dos program but fixes tracks) >2: Dark 2.1 (or earlier) >3: Mister Fixit I seem to remember using a program called Big Bad Block Buncher (B^4), which would put all the corrupted blocks to a file with filetype BAD. It was a ProDOS SYS file I believe. Probably available via FTP somewhere, but its been awhile. I'm not even sure if *I* have a copy of it anymore. >Good Luck! >-- >Michael Gammal Concordia University M.Gammal@CAM.ORG -- /// ____ \\\ | |/ / \ \| | greg@hoss.unl.edu \\_( \==/ )_// Lig Lury Jr. \__\\/
jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova) (01/02/91)
In article <1991Jan02.011638.20879@hoss.unl.edu> greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) writes: > >I seem to remember using a program called Big Bad Block Buncher (B^4), >which would put all the corrupted blocks to a file with filetype BAD. It >was a ProDOS SYS file I believe. Probably available via FTP somewhere, >but its been awhile. I'm not even sure if *I* have a copy of it anymore. Seeing as how I wrote this program, I suppose I could post it to comp.binaries :-). I'll have to find it. Gee, Apple hardware is so damned reliable I NEVER use it (also, 3.5" disks are so cheap I tend to toss bad disks at the wall as hard as I can.) >>Good Luck! Luck? Who needs it! -- Jawaid Bazyar | Being is Mathematics Senior/Computer Engineering | Love is Chemistry jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu | Sex is Physics Apple II Forever! | Babies are engineering