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From: alfalfa@milton.u.washington.edu (Corey Lawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: File recovery from trashed disks,,,
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.211606.8079@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 91 21:16:06 GMT
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In article <43039@cup.portal.com> D-L-K@cup.portal.com (Patrick Andreas Maher) writes:
>There is not really a program that will help a bad directory but there are
>a couple that will go back and undelete any if they have been scratched
>from the directory.  I myself am able to restore a directory but it would
>almost be unable to tell it over mail or even over the phone.  Let me take
>one thing back.  There is a program that will restore a 1581 directory if
>it happens to get messes up.

Well, unscratching a disk only goes so far, especially if you have changed
any of the info on the disk.  Then, when you validate the disk, you could
totally lose some info.  Well, not totally lose info, if you have a good
disk editor.

I have a disk editor (it is called "Disk Surgeon"...it rocks) that will
print the link information for any sector.  You can have it go to a printer,
too...
Of course, this would probably mean doing at least some of the work by hand.
But the tedious part (getting the link information) would be done.

Now...perhaps someone should write a program that does this for EVERY sector...

-corey lawson
alfalfa@milton.u.washington.edu

ps:  anyone with info about Koronis Rift?  anyone with a 1581 for sale?