Re: File recovery utility for CBM disks?

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On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 2:09 AM Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, All,
>
> I've looked around and can't find a tool for this, but there must be
> one.  I have a .d64 disk image where I think the original disk had
> media failure on track 18.  I can see a large number of meaningful
> strings if I hexdump the file, so there are (or were) real contents.
> I'm looking for a tool that will look at the first two bytes of every
> sector, and if not 00 00, chase the pointers to figure out the forward
> chain and note which track/sector is the start of the chain.
>
> I could write such a utility in any number of  languages, but of
> course, I'd rather just use an existing tool.  It doesn't matter to me
> if said tool runs "native" on some CBM platform, or if it's a tool for
> UNIX, etc, that operates on disk images, the result is the same -
> either a list of file "heads" or, even better, a reconstructed
> directory track with dummy file names.
>
> I don't mind inventing the wheel, but prefer not to re-invent it. Can
> anyone point me to some kind of diskette/image file recovery tool?
>
> -ethan
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