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From: wbridgm@hubcap.clemson.edu (william t bridgman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Untrashing a disk
Summary: RE: Untrashing a disk
Message-ID: <10153@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 16 Aug 90 17:21:39 GMT
References: <90227.202751JKMJJ@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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In article <90227.202751JKMJJ@CUNYVM.BITNET>, JKMJJ@CUNYVM writes:
> My Brother in law has a disk that he knows has stuff on it.
> When he puts it into his Mac 512, he gets a message "Disk is
> unreadable do you want to initialize it".  He doesnt want to
> initalize it, he wants the data.  He said he tried Disk First
> Aid and that did not work.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a program that will allow him to retrieve
> his data?
> 
There is a utility available through SUMEX called Floppy Fixer or
something like that.  I had an identical problem on my Mac about two
months ago.  This utility managed to recover every file on the diskette.

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