Date   : Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:39:38 +0100
From   : Rob <robert@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Winchester question...

Two things that might be of interest -

I've got a utility that I wrote years back once that checks an ADFS disc 
(or hard disc) and identifies if it's got a (Level 3) partition on it, and 
outputs the pertinent information about it.  I'll see if I can get it 
across from the beeb, or can do a floppy copy, if that would be of help.

I also wrote a recovery routine, about 16 years ago, that could recover 
files from a crashed or wiped hard disc, writing back out onto floppies in 
"Archive/GetBack" format, but on digging out the disc with it on the other 
day, the relevant program file is 2 bytes long, contents "0d 0a" 
..  oops.  I've not gone through all my discs thoroughly yet, so might have 
another copy, or I might have to see if it's stored somewhere else on the 
floppy accessible to a sector editor..

I also need this back for my own hard disc....  which I *do* have a backup 
of, but unfortunately "GetBack" will only take an econet fileserver as a 
target, not a local ADFS volume, hence another reason I need a 6502 2P, to 
set up a fileserver again.. argh..

Rob


At 17:52 15/08/2005, Mark Usher wrote:

>Careful,
>
>If the disk contained a file server, that may be on a different partition
>that held the econet fs. Otherwise, that might be one hard drive worth data
>salvaging.
>
>Mark
>
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>Unfortunately it looks like the disk once contained fileserver code, but
>it's been pretty much wiped :(