[NLRS] OT: Hard Drive recovery?

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

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

On 6/29/2010 7:57 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Thank you Jerry:
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> I will throw that in my own bag of tricks. I'll keep your email.
> Thanks again!
> Bruce Richardson W9FZ
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> "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S.
> Thompson
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