Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!sri-unix!kl.sri.com!felix From: FELIX@KL.SRI.COM (Felix Ingrand) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: I fixed an unreadable floppy...now you can too ! Message-ID: <12391580633017@KL.SRI.COM> Date: 19 Apr 88 03:05:25 GMT References: <487@csvax.liv.ac.uk> Sender: news@unix.SRI.COM Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 28 >From: sqrkl@csvax.liv.ac.uk >Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac >Subject: I fixed an unreadable floppy...now you can too ! >Message-ID: <487@csvax.liv.ac.uk> >Organisation: Computer Science CSVAX (VAX1), Liverpool University > >Ever had a disk go 'unreadable' on you ? Well, read on... .... After reading your article, I was wondering if your method could work on one of this Protected Software I bought lately and whose disk became unreadable after 3 weeks... Ispend lot of time to try to recover it... No success with any soft (Mac Zap, Disk Express, Disk First Aid,...) Today, I did exactly as you described, but DiskExpress still failed to read the disk... (after the read-write of the "bad sector" under FEdit+). In a last hope, I called Disk Firts Aid (Apple)... Believe it or not, it succeed to rebuilt the disk (without breaking the protection unfortunately). I do not say that Disk First Aid is better of worse than Disk Express, but it looks like they are in some ways complemantaries. Never give up... As long as your disk is "insertable" in the drive, there is hope, try any combinaitions of Utilities... Felix