I am attempting to back up some floppies from a project I did a few years ago.
The sets of 3.5" 1.44Mb IBM floppies have been stored in a box, in a cool and
dry room. Out of one set of 12 and one set of 15 disks, I have four disks
that have read errors that DOS won't get past, bad sectors and the like.
I know that circa 1993, these disks were good. They were written once, mailed
to me, loaded once and put away. I would like to preserve the data because it
has some small historic significance. It's not earth-shattering if the data
is gone forever, but those of us who play adventure games would lose a little
link to the past. I do not belive that the client still has copies of this
original data, so that's not an option. The project eventually made it to
market, so it's not a "lost" game or anything; but these disks do represent
a work in progress with some interesting bugs.
Are there any tools to go divining on DOS floppies that work better than
an endless succession of "R"etries? It's an all or nothing prospect; the
first disk has the install file, the remaning disks have a chopped monolithic
data file. If one disk can't be read, the whole set is fundamentally useless.
Thanks for any suggestions.
-ethan
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Received on Sat Apr 17 1999 - 13:52:12 BST