Is there any way of rescuing a corrupted floppy?

[Nick Wilson]

I won't hold out any hopes but I need to know :(


Cheers

Nick

[pbharris]

you could try to image it (use dd) and then mount the image. hopefully whatever survived will be in the image.

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floopy.img

the to mount it

mount -o loop -t fs_type floopy.img /mountpoint

[Nick Wilson]

Thanks I tried that, no joy. Oh well... :p

[jerbear]

There are programs available that can load a volume into memory and edit it directly. I had to do that once on a floppy of mine - files were scrambled and when they were edited, didn't have the right information in them. Loaded the volume into an editor and copied the pieces I needed into another file. Fortunately all my files were simple ascii text. If you're trying to grab binaries, I have no idea.

I can't give you a suggestion for an editor - I was using Atari 520STFM and Atari TT030 computers at the time, and I don't think the programs I used on them would be much help in a pc environment! :p You might search on hotfiles.com or something similar for "disk editor", "floppy editor", or "hex editor". That might get you started.