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From:Don Cox
Date:25 Aug 2001 at 19:47:38
Subject:Re: Search for software

On 25-Aug-01, Jim Cadwallader wrote:

> If floppies have been damaged there's damaged and DAMAGED, you can
> sometimes get working disks with perseverance (as oddly I mentioned to
> you in e-mail earlier). I'd make a copy with a Sync/nibble mode copier
> and use anything to try and fix this (e.g. Fixdisk, DiskSalv...). If
> he's desperate he can even send me a nibble-copied disk and I can try,
> I've got lots of spare time. Let me know if you want my contact
> details by private mail.

Quarterback Tools in Undelete mode (uncheck the "Deleted files only"
option) makes several retries and can sometimes get a file back.

Superduper is a disk copier which can do up to 99 retries on a sector.

The Catweasel can also sometimes read weak signals which the standard
Amiga drives can't.

Regards



Don Cox
doncox@enterprise.net

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