[NBLUG/talk] floppy recovery

[Christopher Wagner]

'ddrescue' or 'dd_rescue' is probably a better idea than 'dd'. This will
attempt to read through block errors and gives tons more useful info.
You'll still have to deal with the filesystem level stuff.. After making
an image of the disk using ddrescue, try running 'dosfsck' on the image
that gets created. If that seems to go well, then try mounting the image
via loopback.

- Chris

E Frank Ball III wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:13:10PM -0700, Sean wrote:
>  > I have a floppy disk whose FAT partition has become damaged. It is a
>  > new disk, so I'd like to think the data is there and just not
>  > readable.
>  > 
>  > I'd prefer to recover the data off of the floppy (it's not critical,
>  > but will save time), but I can't get fdisk to read it and my KDE
>  > desktop can't open it. I am not able to mount the floppy, and after
>  > trying for awhile the system gives me an error stating that I need to
>  > specify the partition type.
>  > 
>  > Does anyone know of a process or program that I can use to recover the data?
>
>
> Try using "dd" to create an image of the disk, then mount that with the
> loopback or make a new floppy from it.  The man page for dd talks about
> a "noerror" flag that might be useful.
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