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Re: fix floppy boot sector/ fat?


de anglomont 01/20/2007 02:38



Thanks all
especially NetNews and Chief Suspect if you guys bother to email/upload
your tools
I am not sure but guess PC floppy boot sector contents depend on size
rather tha Dos version, but again question is if it is physically
damaged you cannot insert good info in it...
WhzzKdd wrote:
> Pennywise@DerryMaine.Gov wrote:
> > "WhzzKdd" <i.broke.it@oh-no.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> anglomont@yahoo.com wrote:
> >>> Hi I need to get data off the floppy with dead boot sector (possibly
> >>> FATs as well)
> >>> now there are programs like 'resqfloppy' , 'floppy diskfix' and
> >>> 'Test disk' that refresh the
> >
> >>> boot sector appropriatelly but if sector 1 is physically damaged I
> >>> suppose this does not work
> >>>
> >>> but a data clone should be made instead, onto a good floppy and then
> >>> try the recovery?
> >>> Is there any tool that can rebuild a FAT12 using data from both
> >>> (possibly partially
> >>> damaged)copies?
> >>> tnx
> >
> >> Many many moons ago, I used Norton Tools for that kind of work. I
> >> imagine it would be hard to find the old version 3 set of Norton
> >> disks though.
> >
> > The program is called DISKEDIT.exe, a great disk recovery tool.
> > it's included on the Hiren_s_BootCD
> > "Norton Disk Editor 2002
> > a powerful disk editing, manual data recovery tool."
> > http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3587762/Hiren_s_BootCD_v8.7_incl._keyboard_patch
> >
> > Torrent client http://utorrent.com/
>
> Yup - diskedit. Sector by sector search, copy, and save to another device.



fix floppy boot sector/ fat? anglomont
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