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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: crispz on June 27, 2007, 10:46:43 PM

Title: UnErasing Formatted Floppy
Post by: crispz on June 27, 2007, 10:46:43 PM

Is there an Amiga utility that would scan a floppy disk for any files left on it after they were 'erased'?

The floppy I've got is named 'Empty' which may mean I have reformatted rather than just delete the files (it's from years ago) - is there any hope of recovering data from a reformatted disk?

I thought of using DiskSalv but isn't that for when there's an actual error on the disk?

Title: Re: UnErasing Formatted Floppy
Post by: Piru on June 27, 2007, 10:51:04 PM

If it was formatted, no.

It if was just initialized (quickformat), then the data can be recovered.

Title: Re: UnErasing Formatted Floppy
Post by: crispz on June 27, 2007, 11:16:10 PM

Is there a way I can tell which formatting I used?

And which program will best recover an initialized disk?

Title: Re: UnErasing Formatted Floppy
Post by: Piru on June 27, 2007, 11:27:40 PM

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Is there a way I can tell which formatting I used?

Try recovering files off it. If it was formatted nothing can be recovered.

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And which program will best recover an initialized disk?

DiskSalv (Unformat option) for example.