[NLRS] OT: Hard Drive recovery?

[David Palm]

That program on a USB thumb drive that boots into Puppy Linux would be a
fantastic recovery system!


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.
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> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
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> 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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