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- From: lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange)
- Subject: Damaged floppy saver summary
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.113332.23576@cs.ucla.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 11:33:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.120934.1440@cs.ucla.edu> lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes:
- >
- >Does somebody know of good PD or shareware damaged disk programs that
- >are likely to allow me to recover the files (I didn't see this listed
- >in the FAQ)?
-
- To summarize my results in case other people are interested, several
- people suggested Norton Utilities (a commercial product) as being
- very good at recovering damaged disks.
-
- For the short-of-cash and brave-of-heart types, I was pointed to
- a beta-release public domain program called FLUT on
- mac.archive.umich.edu under /mac/util/diskfile/flut87.sit.hqx.
- It crashed on me a couple of times, but I was eventually able to
- copy my files from the damaged floppy successfully. Fortunately,
- you can run the program with the disk write-protected, so you
- the program can't do any real harm, and the price is certainly right.
- Thanks to the author, Miguel Cruz, for writing a life-saver of a program.
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- - Trent Lange
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