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- From: $ennsnr@brandonu.ca
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Damaged floppy savers?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.091646.2260@brandonu.ca>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 15:16:46 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.012152.26051@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Sep8.120934.1440@cs.ucla.edu> <79424@ut-emx.uucp>
- Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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- In article <79424@ut-emx.uucp>, ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep8.120934.1440@cs.ucla.edu> lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes:
- >>I've just gotten the dreaded "This disk is damaged" message on one of
- >>my important (and only partially backed-up) floppies, which no amount
- >>of shaking and the usual tricks will get to work.
- >>
- >>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).
- >>
- >>Thanks,
- >>
- >>- Trent Lange
- >> lange@cs.ucla.edu.
- >
- > I know that Norton Utilities is not commercial, but Norton Utils
- > especially version 2.0 has recovered data from many a damaged
- > floppy.
- >
- > A note about floppies: Eventually they will die on you. After
- > a year or two of having a floppy, copy the data onto another
- > new floppy and keep the old as a backup.
- >
- >
- > --
-
- Try using Disk First Aid. It is on the Utilities 1 disk that came wiht your
- Mac.
- It is FREE and it works well. Otherwise, see if you can find a copy of 1st Aid
- HFS. I don't think it is shareware, but it doesn't cost too much.
-
- --
- "To be average scares the HELL out of me"
- Neil Enns
- $ennsnr@brandonU.ca
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