[NBLUG/talk] floppy recovery

[E Frank Ball III]

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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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us