Date   : Wed, 18 Feb 1987 18:52:23 GMT
From   : jeffj@sfsup.uucp
Subject: need assistance in recovering/salvaging diskette contents

[sprong!]

I have a disk and two sectors have gone bad.
I get read errors (meaning that possibly the formatting was damaged).

I understand that there are programs to help me repair the disk.
       DISK DOCTOR - Who sells it?  Is it much better than DU?
       DU - public domain  (I'm getting a copy soon.
               Will I have to customize it a lot?)
       SPAT - public domain.  I have a copy.  It's useless without
               the specific system it was written for.

Since I plan to recover only the text files, I figure that I can
display all the good sectors, and like a puzzle, put together
the good pieces and combine those sectors to a 'good disk'
as one file.
Oh - this is a 5.25" double sided 80 track disk.
track 1 side 0 sector 3 went bad (directory!).
Looking at the other directory sectors would probably help
me find some files and narrow down the sector search.

Any helpful advise?

       Jeffrey 'paper based lifeform' Jonas
       {ihnp4 | allegra | cbosgd} attunix ! jeffj