[NLRS] OT: Hard Drive recovery?

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

I've applied the new open watcom version 1.9 compiler to my source code. 
It made a 32 bit windoze executable without complaint but won't do a 
linux version. Had the same problem last week with a work program, same 
complaints where a header file disagreed with other header files. 
Clearly since it doesn't compile some of the included sample files, its 
not well tested. I may have to compile from linux, not windoze Xp 
though. In the directory 
http://www.geraldj.networkiowa.com/papers/Recovery/ I've added 
slowcopywin32.exe. A command line program, it doesn't have a windoze 
interface. It needs source file with path and destination file with path 
as parameters. Same as the dos executable since its the same source 
code. My only test under the windoze XP run command it was fast making a 
copy of the source code.

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