Re: Recovering ancient data from formatted ProFILE

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Sep 24, 3:35 am, KP <kjpm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 24, 2:35 am, A2Aviator <a2avia...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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?

Yep.  The bits are the same, since ADTPro transports the whole disk
image regardless of the file system constructs underneath it.  You
just need to bring the image up in an emulator along with ProSEL and
associated repair tools.