Recovery of Mac floppies

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From: Mark Foster
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1990 13:54

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Greetings to all,

I have a couple of problems with some floppies.  They were brought to me by
a student here but they are unreadable. I can see the information on the disk
with MacTools but Disk First Aid refuses to read it.  I don't know enough
about the sector/tag/other bits to be able to rebuild it manually so here
is the question.

1) Is there a utility somewhere out there that will recover disks which are
   "Unreadable- Do you wish to initialize it?"

or

2) Can someone supply enough information for me to be able to rebuild the disk
   by hand.


Please respond with direct E-mail... any help greatly appreciated.

Mark

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From: markf@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Mark Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Recovery of Mac floppies
Keywords: Floppy recovery help
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Date: 9 Feb 90 13:54:38 GMT
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