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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: omnicron10 on May 12, 2009, 08:26:34 PM

Title: PC Floppy Disks Recovery on Amiga
Post by: omnicron10 on May 12, 2009, 08:26:34 PM

Do we have tools on the Amiga that allow better PC floppy disk recovery for disks with read errors than a PC might be able to do?

I have looked but not found anything yet.

Thanks

Tim

Title: Re: PC Floppy Disks Recovery on Amiga
Post by: terminator4 on May 12, 2009, 08:56:46 PM

disksalv...  any disk with bad sectors will not cure itself, but over time get worse.  for the price of disks, it may be cheaper to buy new ones.  if you experience many problems, then your disk drive may be misaligned or defective.

Title: Re: PC Floppy Disks Recovery on Amiga
Post by: omnicron10 on May 13, 2009, 12:37:31 AM

I dont want to save the disks but recover the data on the disk.  Disksalv will work with PCO: FAT12 ?  I figured the disk had to be Amiga OFS/FFS.

Tim

Title: Re: PC Floppy Disks Recovery on Amiga
Post by: Matt_H on May 13, 2009, 02:28:46 AM

To my knowledge, DiskSalv does not work with CrossDOS disks.

You might have some luck ripping the raw sectors to a file. Some of the support tools in the WHDLoad package might help, or you could ask some of the developers for assistance.

Title: Re: PC Floppy Disks Recovery on Amiga
Post by: freqmax on May 14, 2009, 01:57:09 AM

Tip.. port the source for fsck_msdosfs or mtools "recover" to Amiga. And you will have what you are looking for.