Re: [LI] Recover from faulty floppy disk

["Prasad Mhatre" <prasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How to use HD-COPY? and where will I get more information on this?

Thanks
Love and regards
Prasad

-----Original Message-----
From: Bilal Muddassir <noorh@xxxxxxx>
To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: [LI] Recover from faulty floppy disk


>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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