Re: File recovery utility for CBM disks?

From: Terry Raymond <traymond160_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 11:14:46 -0700
Message-ID: <CAJ+D7=O6NsNAFEVbyr_kuEtvD1saQiM1FKkvBhOdh-26WY-xqg_at_mail.gmail.com>
Ethan,

Theres a PC program called Filemaster that will create all different
emulator images etc.
I think you can pullup the disk or files you want to rescue then create a
new  image then you can
drag all files over to the new image and hopefully backup the files.
I did this anyway when I encountered a bad .D64 image and I couldnt access
or copy the files out of the image so
I hope this could possibly help.

Terry Raymond


On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 5:01 AM <groepaz_at_gmx.net> wrote:

> Am Montag, 8. März 2021, 08:08:15 CET schrieb Ethan Dicks:
> > Hi, All,
> >
> > I've looked around and can't find a tool for this, but there must be
> > one.  I have a .d64 disk image where I think the original disk had
> > media failure on track 18.  I can see a large number of meaningful
> > strings if I hexdump the file, so there are (or were) real contents.
> > I'm looking for a tool that will look at the first two bytes of every
> > sector, and if not 00 00, chase the pointers to figure out the forward
> > chain and note which track/sector is the start of the chain.
> >
> > I could write such a utility in any number of  languages, but of
> > course, I'd rather just use an existing tool.  It doesn't matter to me
> > if said tool runs "native" on some CBM platform, or if it's a tool for
> > UNIX, etc, that operates on disk images, the result is the same -
> > either a list of file "heads" or, even better, a reconstructed
> > directory track with dummy file names.
> >
> > I don't mind inventing the wheel, but prefer not to re-invent it. Can
> > anyone point me to some kind of diskette/image file recovery tool?
>
> if you dont mind using a d64:
>
> https://csdb.dk/release/?id=66765
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