ch230978@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (cathy huttenhow) (11/19/90)
I was wondering if anyone knows of a program which will read a disk by brute force. I have a disc that is all of the sudden unreadable. Whenever I try to doing anything with it, the mac says that it needs to be intialized. I know that there is stuff on the disk. I need information on any programs that would allow me to read the disk without destroying it. I would also like a copy of the program if anyone can provide it. C. Huttenhow
doner@henri.ucsb.edu (John Doner) (11/19/90)
In article <11296@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> ch230978@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (cathy huttenhow) writes: >I was wondering if anyone knows of a program which will read a disk by >brute force. >I have a disc that is all of the sudden unreadable. Whenever >I try to doing anything with it, the mac says that it needs to be >intialized. I know that there is stuff on the disk. > >I need information on any programs that would allow me to read >the disk without destroying it. I would also like a copy of the >program if anyone can provide it. > >C. Huttenhow Fedit Plus will let you do that. You can choose 'Open Volume' and then mount the disk even in the face of disk errors. You can then read any sectors that can be read at all; you can read them into a buffer and write this out to a text file. I imagine other disk editors will let you do as much. Fedit is marketed by MacMaster Systems, 108 E. Fremont Ave., Suite 37, Sunnyvale CA 94037-3201, or at least it was when I bought it several years ago. The program is getting a bit dated, however, and maybe some tool from Symantec would be better. By the way, my own first step in resuscitating a trashed disk is to make a copy of it using Copy-to-Mac's sector copy option. Not only does prudence dictate a copy before messing with a disk that has important data, but often this is all that's required! Copy-to-Mac is very good at reading 'weak' disks and reconstructing what was on them. John E. Doner | "The beginner...should not be discouraged if...he Mathematics, UCSB | finds that he does not have the prerequisites for Santa Barbara, CA 93106| reading the prerequisites." doner@henri.ucsb.edu | --Paul Halmos, Measure Theory