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> I recently had to recover a file which had developed a CRC error on one
> sector.  I tried DOS copy, typeing I for the "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
> as well as various things with Norton's Utilities, etc.  I finally 
> succeeded by copying the whole disk with Locksmith's Fast backup
> utility.  The file on the copy-disk was readable and complete except
> for some garbage where the munged sector had been.
> 
> Is there an easier way to do this (there should be!).  Perhaps, a 
> software product?  Is there anything which duplicates Locksmith's
> "fast backup".  If nothing else, it's alot faster than MSDOS's
> diskcopy.  It would be nice to have it a simple utility.
 
I believe The Mace Utilities includes a utility that will recover files 
from damaged areas of the disk (and does a rather good job of it too).

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