Re: Recovering ancient data from formatted ProFILE

[A2Aviator <a2aviator@gmail.com>]

ProSEL Volume Repair, Bag Of Tricks II..

Always always ... always, answer "No" to that question on ProSEL,
"Assume valid bitmap", if you answer yes, you loose your chance to get
anything back.

What I would do is erase/quick format it again, and recover files. You
are going to get back what you've written recently for sure, your hope
is for any subdirectories that were written further out than the
amount of stuff you added recently.

IOW, if you had 9 megs of stuff on it, and of that 9 megs, 6 megs
worth were added *after* you reached the 2 meg capacity point back
when, and all that was in a newly created subdirectory, you stand an
excellent chance of getting that back.

But if your newly added stuff wiped out all traces of prior
subdirectories then that complicates things somewhat, because the file
entry information for that stuff just got wrote over.

Anything that was in the root directory stands a really good chance at
being gone.

I've done this plenty of times over the years, even had to resort to
hand creating entries to get stuff back.

Bag of Tricks II tends to crash a lot on IIgs volumes with regards to
ProDOS 8 and the pseudo support of lower case file names.