Re: Trying to recover data from messed up MSDOS floppy

[Tom Pfeifer <mailmisc@snet.net>]

Yes there is one called lde which you can find in the utils directory on
your CD or the ftp site. It doesn't specifically support the FAT file
systems, but you can look at the raw sector by sector data.

For the FAT file system, Norton's Disk Editor is a very good tool. The
Linux dd command is also very useful for working with disks at a low
level.

Tom

Paul Rightley wrote:
> 
> We saved some important data from one of our experiments to a floppy
> in one of our digital oscilliscopes.  The o'scope can write to MSDOS
> formatted floppies only.  I usually then copy the data over to my Debian
> machine for processing.  However, this floppy turned out to have some
> bad areas (mostly in the FAT region of the disk).  I was wondering if
> there is a disk editor in Linux (which I would probably trust more than
> letting Norton mess with my disk)?  Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks for any assistance,
> 
> Paul Rightley
> 
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