cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) (09/10/90)
Today I was lucky enough to get the "This disk is damaged" message
on a VERY important floppy (figures that I do not have a backup).
I tried to use Disk First Aid to fix it, but it did not work. The
title of the floppy comes on the screen and then I get the dreaded
error message. Is there a program somewhere out in netland that
is more dilligent about trying to repair a corrupt disk than
Disk First Aid?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sigh, there is a rather
giant Excel spreadsheet on this one that I would really like to
avoid inputing again...
Cheers,
Chris
p.s. I forgot the IPC number for Sumex. Anyone know it offhand?
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cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes >Today I was lucky enough to get the "This disk is damaged" message >on a VERY important floppy (figures that I do not have a backup). >I tried to use Disk First Aid to fix it, but it did not work. The >title of the floppy comes on the screen and then I get the dreaded >error message. Is there a program somewhere out in netland that >is more dilligent about trying to repair a corrupt disk than >Disk First Aid? .. >Cheers, > >Chris We have invested in a number of different recovery programs. At present I feel that 1st Aid HFS 2.82 from 1st Aid Development Inc. seems to do the trick for floppies the best. Both Sum II and MacTools Deluxe haven't quite come up to scratch for us. I will admit that I haven't done all the tests to prove this, but we have had numerous occasions where extra files have been recovered when using 1st Aid HFS. You must remember that when you get this message of damaged disk that you should immediately lock your disk to protect it from further damage. In fact 1st Aid HFS won't do any work on the disk unless it is locked. [I have no connections with any of the above software, distributors or manufacturers] Nick Guoth RSC Australian National University Canberra, Australia nickg@rsc0.anu.edu.au or ndg503@csc.anu.edu.au