tom@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Tom Pfender) (10/17/90)
Hello Netlanders!!! I am using a Mac SE, system 6.0.5, 2.5 meg RAM and a 20 meg hard drive. I have a diskette that is unreadable, but I know there is data on it, or at least there once was. I am using SUM II to try and recover the file(s) but cannot get my Mac to even recognize there is a diskette that has a problem. I have inserted the diskette into my internal drive while holding down the option key as was recommended by someone in my office, but it is still won't recognize it. If I do not hold down the option key, I get a dialogue box asking me if I want to initialize it. Could someone of you kind souls help me out. Thanks in advance, either post here or send mail to tpfender@ucsd.edu. Would prefer mail as it would be speedier for me to read. Thanks
dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) (10/17/90)
tom@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Tom Pfender) writes: >I have a diskette that is unreadable, but I know >there is data on it, or at least there once was. I am using SUM >II to try and recover the file(s) but cannot get my Mac to even >recognize there is a diskette that has a problem. It's funny you're having a problem since the SUM _manual_ covers the procedure in such good detail :->. Seriously though folks, don't worry if the floppy won't mount and show on the desktop, just start SUM and insert the disk later as you're going though the SUM diskclinic steps, SUM tells you when to insert the floppy. If it still doesn't work, maybe you'll have to go out and see if you can find a copy of Norton. :-) -- Dana E. Keil Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley dana@are.berkeley.edu
dvb@inmet.inmet.com (10/18/90)
I have used SUM several times to recover bad floppies all with almost full success. However this last time, I was using a IIci to run SUM and no matter what I tried, SUM thought the disk drive on the ci was a HD drive (true) and would not allow the system to accept the bad floppy. (It was not a HD disk) Eventually I moved everything to a Plus with an 800K drive and the same procedures would then let the disk stay in. And on top of it all, the disk was so wrecked, the file would come off, but would still be ruined and I couldn't copy it or open it. So although I have high praise for SUM, sometimes it just won't work. :-( Dave Baker