Les_Ferch@MTSG.UBC.CA (11/16/90)
I have a 5.25" disk with a trashed directory but text data that is intact on the disk. I can view the text using a sector editor such as Block Warden, but I want to get these blocks of data into a file. Is there a utility available that will read arbitrary blocks of data from a ProDOS disk and put them into a file on another disk? Barring that, is there a disk archiver around that will read an entire disk and put the data into a file *without* compression? Once I've got the data in a file, I can use various programs to filter out the non-ascii junk. It's just getting it into a file that's got me stumped. internet: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca bitnet: userlsf@ubcmtsg
rjv21207@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Randal John Vose) (11/16/90)
HELP! The other day one of my data disks crashed completely, :-( and I
(unforunately) don't have a data recovery program. It's a 3.5" ProDOS 8
disk, and I'm running a 128K //e...can anyone give me some info on any
available 3.5" disk recovery programs? (before you say it, I know, I know,
I should have had a backup... :-( stupid me... ) Any input would be
much appreciated...especially if I can FTP one from somewhere...
Thanks...
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Urbana/Champaign | -- Dianne Harmon's rules of life...greg@hoss.unl.edu (Hammer T. H.) (11/24/90)
In <2561893@mtsg.ubc.ca> Les_Ferch@MTSG.UBC.CA writes: >... is there a disk archiver around that will read an entire >disk and put the data into a file *without* compression? There was Copy II Plus v7.2 which would do that. (I'm not sure about the others in the v7.x range, but I am about v7.2.) It will copy a whole 5.25" disk into a singe file without compression. It was used as a way to make multiple copies of a disk if you had the ability to configure a RAMdisk large enough. (It wouldn't load the whole disk into memory before copying yet.) The destination disk however must have 280 ProDOS blocks free; a blank, formatted 5.25" disk won't do it. (Resulting filetype was defined by v7.2 as IMG, but I don't know what the hex-type is now... it isn't an official/reserved type. If there is an IMG type now, it probably isn't the same.) >Once I've got the data in a file, I can use various programs to filter >out the non-ascii junk. It's just getting it into a file that's got >me stumped. You could create a file with the same length on another disk, then copy the file block-by-block from the old disk to the new disk, skipping the lookup block table of course. There are programs which will extract the file better, but I don't know their names, and I've never used them. >internet: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca >bitnet: userlsf@ubcmtsg -- __ _____________ __ \ \_\ \__ __/ /_/ / "I'm working the Eight Minus Zero Shift..." \greg@hoss.unl.edu/ "Eight Minus Zero Shift?" \_\ \_\|_|/_/ /_/ "Yup, the Happiness Patrol."