Re: LOST DATA ON DOS 3.3 DISK

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

sicklittlemonkey wrote:
> 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 ... ;-)

I wasn't familiar with the show, but I looked it up--thanks!  ;-)

Being retired has its advantages in terms of time.  Since I lost
a disk with important data (and found I had a bad backup!), I've
been fascinated by what goes wrong with disks, and how to recover
the data.

-michael

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