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Morpheus
Registered: Feb 2004
Posts: 152 |
Get files back on a formatted disk
I wonder, what was the name of that program were you could get files back on a formatted disk. I need to rescue some files before they fade away... |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2970 |
that only works with soft-formatted disks, that is, those formatted without id, where just the dir track is initialized. check the latest dir-master versions, there are some with that feature. |
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drake
Account closed
Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 207 |
yep, dirmaster 7 is one of those programs that could help you. it was an extended version done by erol/tempest as far as i can remember. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
heh one of those tools saved my life when coding plastic kiss, I've almost lost my workdisk due to a fuckin buggin track 18. but be aware, you wont get the filenames back :) back then took me about an hour to find out what files are what, and that same got still lost. |
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Graham
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Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 990 |
afaik only the first block of the directory is deleted so you only have lost the names of the first 8 files. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
not in my case, it was not about formatting the disk, but loosing the whole dir due to buggy track 18. |
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Ben
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Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 163 |
A bit of a coarse method, I admit, but you can ofcourse always trace back the files by following the Track/Sector links and making an inventory of those.. |
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Graham
Account closed
Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 990 |
@Oswald: c'mon, you're always able to read a few sectors on a buggy track if it hasn't been formatted. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
graham: didnt had the nerves to search for a t/s monitor and play with it. I have not much experience in that. |
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Morpheus
Registered: Feb 2004
Posts: 152 |
dirmaster 7 - okey - thanks. I'll check that one out. Where can I find it?
Though I remember some other program from the past that I THINK could rescue files with a disk that had been formatted with the N0: way. |
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TDJ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1879 |
Dir make-up (DMU) by the Whiz-zards association is the program I always used to do stuff like this. Best damn disk-manager/editor ever. |
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