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From: ndg503@csc.anu.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Floppy Disk Repair
Message-ID: <1990Sep12.085000.2805@csc.anu.oz.au>
Date: 11 Sep 90 22:50:00 GMT
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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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