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From: dvb@inmet.inmet.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: floppy file recovery
Message-ID: <154600003@inmet>
Date: 18 Oct 90 01:10:00 GMT
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Nf-From: inmet.inmet.com!dvb    Oct 17 21:10:00 1990


I have used SUM several times to recover bad floppies all with
almost full success.

However this last time, I was using a IIci to run SUM and no matter
what I tried, SUM thought the disk drive on the ci was a HD drive
(true) and would not allow the system to accept the bad floppy.  (It
was not a HD disk)

Eventually I moved everything to a Plus with an 800K drive and
the same procedures would then let the disk stay in.

And on top of it all, the disk was so wrecked, the file would come
off, but would still be ruined and I couldn't copy it or open it.  

So although I have high praise for SUM, sometimes it just won't work. :-(

Dave Baker