Recovering 3.5" floppy

[Excalibur]

Are there any good utilities, either PC based or Commodore based that
could be used to attempt recovering a 3.5" CBM floppy disk. I finally
found my old root partition backup from the mid 90's and there's a
couple of DMBBS files that should be on it that have otherwise been
lost. Problem is, the damn thing won't read. I did manage to do an
import of it into a .d81 file and it made it through it with alot of
effort but what I got was a disk image that would mount but had no
readable files on it. It would display a directory but the top few
files were listed and everything below a few files down were listed as
garbled characters. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Excalibur

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[Groepaz]

Excalibur wrote:

> Are there any good utilities, either PC based or Commodore based that
> could be used to attempt recovering a 3.5" CBM floppy disk. I finally
> found my old root partition backup from the mid 90's and there's a
> couple of DMBBS files that should be on it that have otherwise been
> lost. Problem is, the damn thing won't read. I did manage to do an
> import of it into a .d81 file and it made it through it with alot of
> effort but what I got was a disk image that would mount but had no
> readable files on it. It would display a directory but the top few
> files were listed and everything below a few files down were listed as
> garbled characters. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

i have never used it with with 1581 images myself, but you could try my
little d64scan utility, it can find "lost" filechains on the disk and
create a new image:

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=66765

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[Peter Schepers]

>> Are there any good utilities, either PC based or Commodore based that
>> could be used to attempt recovering a 3.5" CBM floppy disk. I finally
>> found my old root partition backup from the mid 90's and there's a
>> couple of DMBBS files that should be on it that have otherwise been
>> lost. Problem is, the damn thing won't read. I did manage to do an
>> import of it into a .d81 file and it made it through it with alot of
>> effort but what I got was a disk image that would mount but had no
>> readable files on it. It would display a directory but the top few
>> files were listed and everything below a few files down were listed as
>> garbled characters. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

You could use 64Copy (DOS based), and try the CheckDisk (alt-f3) function
to scan the disk. Otherwise use alt-F4 to view the sectors (starting with
the directory) and see if the copy from 1581 to D81 was successful.

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[Excalibur]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I will give those tips a try. Good
news is that I only need a couple of files as I have everything else
so maybe I'll get lucky.