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Re: LOST DATA ON DOS 3.3 DISK

Subject: Re: LOST DATA ON DOS 3.3 DISK
From: "sicklittlemonkey" <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com>
Date: 6 Sep 2006 03:54:10 -0700
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Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> If you overwrote the catalog track ($11), then it's harder, but
> still probably recoverable.  I don't know of any automatic recovery
> programs that will do that for DOS 3.3, but I'll bet someone here
> does.

Bag Of Tricks ("Fixcat") will recover the files. Version 2 also handles
ProDos disks and has a fancier user interface:
http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/ftp.apple.asimov.net/images/utility/disk_utils/

> If you're not in a rush, contact me offline and I'll give it a try.

You're an armchair version of "The Equalizer", Michael, if you ever saw
that English TV series. I do envy your free time ... ;-)

Cheers,
Nick.

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