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Recovering data from hard disk

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From: Tero Manninen
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 1990 20:16
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I seem to have a nasty problem with my 30M Seagate..
This began when my other hard disk stopped to work (the 20M drive
inside A590) and I tried to reformat it.  Accidentally I formatted a
few cylinders from my healthy scsi disk (not low level format).
The scsi disk had two partitions in it and both were after that
"Not a DOS disk" :-(
So I tried to set partition information back with Supra controller
(I had not reformatted the disk after I switched to A590 controller).
But still no luck..

Now when I am trying to recover the files from the second partition
I get DiskSalv errors (the block difference stays at 202 blocks):
 FILE ":LOOSE-BLOCKS/DIRBLK-20800/indent.doc.Z" Block Key Mismatch:
 21066 != 20864

With the first partition I get errors like this (diff 102 blocks):
 FILE ":LOOSE-BLOCKS/DIRBLK-10406/Calc" Block Key Mismatch:
 10332 != 10434

The recovered files are pure garbage.. I suspect that they are 202 and
102 blocks off the real data.
Is there any way to change this block offset ?
I already tried to change disk partitioning but it works by cylinders,
not blocks..

Oh, I was just to forget.. the DiskSalv is v1.42, very nice program.

++Tero
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