Re: [LI] Recover from faulty floppy disk

["Bilal Muddassir" <noorh@xxxxxxx>]

HD-COPY comes best at these mishaps
Uses BIOS routines to read sector by sector of the floppy disk
Works for me

----- Original Message -----
From: Prasad Mhatre <Prasad@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 11:09 AM
Subject: [LI] Recover from faulty floppy disk


> Can anyone suggest a method to recover damage file from a floppy disk?
>
> I have some important text file in a floppy which was working perfectly,
> all of a sudden it show I/O error and after doing some fschk on the floppy
> it shows
>
>
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root     root         1024 Jun  9 09:52 ./
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root     root         1024 Jun 17 12:05 ../
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jun  9 00:15 boot/
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Aug 31 11:18 dev/
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jun  9 14:58 etc/
> drwxr-xr-x   9 root     root        12288 Jun  9 00:15 lost+found/
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       454325 Oct 14  1998 vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
>
> In fact I had some sub-directories and some other files on the floppy and
> not the one mentioned above.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Love and regards
> Prasad
>
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