Re: Recovering ancient data from formatted ProFILE

[KP <kjpmail@gmail.com>]

On Sep 24, 2:35 am, A2Aviator <a2avia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Would it work as well on an image that I just made with ADTPro of the
disk, as it would on the actual disk itself?