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UnErasing Formatted Floppy
« 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?
 

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Re: UnErasing Formatted Floppy
« Reply #1 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.
 

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Re: UnErasing Formatted Floppy
« Reply #2 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?
 

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Re: UnErasing Formatted Floppy
« Reply #3 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.