Can any future version of Recover Fixed/Floppy Disk handle the following: bad sector(s) in directory (root dir or any other) which stops WINDOWS 98 from listing anything when a DIR command is issued?
Recover Fixed/Floppy Disk v2.2 provides a two-step solution to handle hole-in-a-directory conditions. It is as simple as saving that directory to a file (DirEntriesFile) and recovering files by passing this DirEntriesFile to Recover Fixed/Floppy Disk in the next invocation. One of the aims of Recover Fixed/Floppy Disk is to make seemingly complex situations easily manageable. The two-step process lets you recover all the files excluding those whose entries are trapped in bad sectors. It is of course a big problem if what was so trapped was a subdirectory. Manually finding the subdirectory and saving its contents to a file for passing it to Recover Fixed/Floppy Disk to recover the files is the only solution. Of course it is difficult to find the exact subdirectory unless names of some files kept in it could be remembered and what is more, everyone may not have a disk utility to view sectors after sectors. A big solution could be a program to automatically find all subdirectories and sav
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- Recover Fixed/Floppy Disk runs just in the assumption that file contents can be found in contiguous sectors. Can things be rooted in better theories?
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