Recovering files with bad spots

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From: John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1987 12:19

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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.

Thanks for any responses.


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John Wright	//////////////////	Phone:  902-424-3805  or  902-424-6527
Post: c/o Dr Pat Lane, Biology Dept, Dalhousie U, Halifax, NS, Canada, B3H-1J4
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From: lane@dalcs.UUCP (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Recovering files with bad spots
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Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 07:19:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  5 07:19:23 1987
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Organization: Dept. of Math., Stats & C.S., Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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Keywords: file recovery, Locksmith