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From: jchoi@ics.uci.edu (John Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Need Help with Recovering Files
Message-ID: <275E9AB2.399@ics.uci.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 19:23:29 GMT
Reply-To: jchoi@ics.uci.edu (John Choi)
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Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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      Help.  I need to recover a bunch of files on a disk whose directory
information is corrupted.  I used Copy ][ 5.0 to recover some of the data
but there's a lot more I really, really need.  The directory is written
on track 17 which has sectors 7 and 15 damaged.  I get a disk error #8 when
ever it tries to read the directory.  I can't seem to write to these sectors
even though the disk itself is physically fine (I made a bit copy of the
original disk.)  I can read and write to other sectors using the Sector Editor
but can't write to thesee.
      
My Questions are :
  1.  Is there a program which will allow me to write to these damaged sectors
      or better yet, that can reconstruct the directory information?
  2.  If not, is there a program which can read the data sector by sector and
      copy that information as a file onto another disk?

The files that I need recovered are just 3k text files containing a long list
of integers.  There's about 40 of these files on the disk and I need to get
about 20 more recovered.  Any help would be greatly appreciated. I haven't
worked with an apple ][ for about 10 year; I'm trying to help out a friend
who has (had?) about 3 months worth of work on this one floppy which went bad.

Thanks.  Please email responses.  Info:  Apple ][e w/2 drives, dos 3.3, only
have Locksmith with Copy ][ + 5.0.  

- John Choi
  jchoi@ics.uci.edu
  (714)856-7473