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From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Recovering lost files....
Summary: Norton Utilities works with ST disks
Message-ID: <9756@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 6 Oct 89 16:40:43 GMT
References: <89278.164052BGB100@PSUVM.BITNET>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago, Ill.
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Bruce Blanar asked for help recovering a file when the data is on the disk 
but there's no directory entry.  I recently needed to recover a file from
a disk with an invalid track 0.  Norton Utilities on a PS/2 worked fine.
It's versatile, well documented and fairly easy to use.

For this particular problem, it may be possible to read in a whole lot of
raw sectors using memfile (a freely-redistributable desk accessory binary
editor provided by the NeoDesk folks), write out the contents as a file,
and possibly spruce it up a bit with a debugger (the Atari debugger seems
to have the features needed).  Maybe.  Norton will work for sure.
                                Steve J.