[NLRS] OT: Hard Drive recovery?

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

I have posted slowcopylinux.elf at the same location 
http://www.geraldj.networkiowa.com/papers/Recovery. It also is a command 
line program. Use slowcopylinux.elf sourcefile destination file.

I had to create a funky delay function because while it was defined, it 
wasn't in the library to link. Excuse me while I don't sing any praises 
to Open Watcom version 1.9 targeting Linux from Windoze. My code is now 
not instantly portable.

I did copy a couple files but from and too good drives so I can't verify 
the copying of difficult files, but the DOS version worked. There might 
be a 32 bit windoze version someday, but keep on breathing.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 6/29/2010 9:31 PM, David Palm wrote:
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> That program on a USB thumb drive that boots into Puppy Linux would be a
> fantastic recovery system!
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> On 6/29/10, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson<g369n849j at weather.net>  wrote:
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>> My first post didn't make the list because I sent from the wrong
>> address. Slowcopy.c  and .exe is a MS DOS program I wrote to recover
>> data from a flaky drive. I had one that could be read part time, but not
>> good enough to boot. SLOWCOPY is extremely patient. It reads one byte at
>> a time from the drive and if there is an error flag, it pauses a while
>> (10 milliseconds or so, the source code shows that detail) and tries
>> that read again. It allows some 65,000 read errors on a particular byte.
>> It is VERY SLOW, it took a weekend or longer to recover 40 MB but it
>> recovered all the files on the drive. I used it on a series of floppy
>> disks formatted to be bootable MS-DOS and booted from the floppies. I
>> have a new compiler that might make a Linux, OS/2, Windoze 32 bit (but
>> not Vista or 7) executable among other OS.
>>
>> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
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