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ABTools, QB Tools or Disksalv?
« on: September 05, 2011, 09:06:16 AM »
Hi

What is your favourit salvage program of AmiBack Tools, Quarterback Tools and DiskSalv and why? Pro's and Con's of the differnt tools and how do their salvage capabilities/toolkit compare to one another?

Offline Templario

Re: ABTools, QB Tools or Disksalv?
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2011, 11:50:39 PM »
DiskSalv I used very much with my 500, easy and fast.
Amiga 500 with ROMs 1.3-2.05 and M-Tec AT 500 with hard disk and 4MB Ram.
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Re: ABTools, QB Tools or Disksalv?
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2011, 07:23:21 AM »
Quote from: Templario;658121
DiskSalv I used very much with my 500, easy and fast.


How do you do that? I can't seem to get DiskSalv to work without KS3.x :(

Offline zipper

Re: ABTools, QB Tools or Disksalv?
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2011, 08:00:02 AM »
The earlier versions do work - it was probably 1.42 or something like I used on my 1.3 A500.
 

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Re: ABTools, QB Tools or Disksalv?
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2011, 08:06:43 AM »
ABTools seemed to work best back when I still used FFS for anything.

Can't remember the specific pros and cons, IIRC QBTools gave up sometimes when ABTools managed to fix the FS.
 

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Re: ABTools, QB Tools or Disksalv?
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2011, 08:11:55 AM »
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The earlier versions do work - it was probably 1.42 or something like I used on my 1.3 A500.


Do you (anyone) know how to get hold of old/early Disksalv versions?

Nevermind.. found it aminet thanks to fredfish :D
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Re: ABTools, QB Tools or Disksalv?
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2011, 08:27:39 AM »
I loved QBTools, simply because I could work on files at a block level, and it would tell you what each word of data was for. Great for resolving crosslinked files where the system itself wouldn't know which file segments were correct...
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Re: ABTools, QB Tools or Disksalv?
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2011, 08:57:35 AM »
Anyone who can tell me how Disksalv1.42 compare to QBTools?