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2004-11-04 13:34
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...
2004-11-04 15:43
Krill

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2854
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.
2004-11-05 07:38
drake
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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.
2004-11-05 08:30
Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5027
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.
2004-11-05 12:06
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.
2004-11-05 12:23
Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5027
not in my case, it was not about formatting the disk, but loosing the whole dir due to buggy track 18.
2004-11-05 12:56
Ben
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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..
2004-11-05 13:51
Graham
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@Oswald: c'mon, you're always able to read a few sectors on a buggy track if it hasn't been formatted.
2004-11-05 14:00
Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5027
graham: didnt had the nerves to search for a t/s monitor and play with it. I have not much experience in that.
2004-11-05 14:26
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.
2004-11-05 21:10
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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