reading defective floppy
charles cashion
There is some chance that information is still on it,
but without a valid boot record. Is there some way using
Linux to pull any information off of it?
I suppose then I would have to work to organize it.
I would be trading one problem for another problem.
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Charles
philo
Avid Fan
Not attempting to write to the damaged device is important.
I have been able to read usbs and Hard drives that were unreadable in
windows simply by mounting them in Linux. No writing to the devices
required. If you happen to to have Linux installed on a machine give it
a try.
However the purpose built programs for recovering data from damaged
devices, as suggested by Philo, sound like your best bet.
The Meh
If its plain text you need to rescue, just making a 1:1 copy with dd can
help. you can then usually just grab the text with a text editor like
gedit or vim or whatever.
Another thing is you can (I think) use dd or imaging software to copy
the floppy content 1:1 to another floppy on which you can then test
recovery software without risking the original floppy and its content.
In those cases make sure you use software that makes a 1:1 copy though,
and not software that just copies the files :-)
I managed to save a few guys at work with the write to image>notepad
trick once.