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==FAT Recover 0.9.0==
[[Image:Program-fatrecover.png|frame|right|Screen shot of FAT Recover displaying information about the first megabyte of my Dad's laptop before I ran mkdosfs on /dev/hda1 and reinstalled Windows 95 OSR2]] FAT Recover manually recover files from bad [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk floppy disks] using FAT Recover and dd. By telling you the locations of all the files on your disk or disk image, you can use dd to extract the necessary parts. You could also use grep on a disk image to hunt for file header signatures for really messed-up disks. If anyone is interested in making a front end in something like GTK+/GNOME, please let me know.


Manually recover files from bad floppy disks using FAT Recover and dd. By telling you the locations of all the files on your disk or disk image, you can use dd to extract the necessary parts. You could also use grep on a disk image to hunt for file header signatures for really messed-up disks. If anyone is interested in making a front end in something like GTK+/GNOME, please let me know.
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Screenshot of running FAT Recover on an image of the first megabyte of my Dad's laptop before I ran mkdosfs on /dev/hda1 and reinstalled Windows 95 OSR2.

Revision as of 04:41, 15 October 2007

Screen shot of FAT Recover displaying information about the first megabyte of my Dad's laptop before I ran mkdosfs on /dev/hda1 and reinstalled Windows 95 OSR2

FAT Recover manually recover files from bad floppy disks using FAT Recover and dd. By telling you the locations of all the files on your disk or disk image, you can use dd to extract the necessary parts. You could also use grep on a disk image to hunt for file header signatures for really messed-up disks. If anyone is interested in making a front end in something like GTK+/GNOME, please let me know.

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