[wplug] floppy disk rescue

[esw148 at psu.edu]

try ddrescue in linux.  it skips past errors and tries to recover as much as 
it can.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arnaud Loos" <arnaud at arnaudloos.com>
To: "WPLUG" <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 5:01 PM
Subject: [wplug] floppy disk rescue


>I have a floppy with a word document on it which I'm unable to read in
> windows. Running it through a windows file recovery program tells me that
> there are many bad blocks on the disk, but I can't get any usable data 
> from
> it. In linux I'm able to read a directory listing from the disk, but a 
> file
> copy results in an input/output error about half way through.
>
> I'm looking for a way to recover the document but am unsure how to 
> proceed.
> I suppose creating a disk image is an option but I don't know how dd will
> deal with the bad blocks and/or corrupted data. Are there any special
> switches I should use? Can anyone recommend another program or method 
> which
> may have more success at reading the disk?
>
> Thanks.
> Arnaud-
>
>
>
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