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RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk v1.4 ( v1.2a already 4-star rated). Directory / File level Data Recovery Utility for Hard Disk Drives and Floppy Disks. Handles two very-difficult-to-handle areas; one being damage to the File Allocation Table of Hard disks and Floppy Disks; and the other being all-directories-gone condition. RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk handles these areas at individual directory levels that can be engineered into a simple but powerful backup solution. Recovers all the files from the specified directory on 16-bit and 12-bit FAT file systems in DOS and WINDOWS even if both copies of the FAT have considerable number of damaged sectors, if the disk involved had been regularly defragmented. If FAT is good, FAT1 or FAT2 can be used. All you need to do is put all your important files in a few directories (note: entire drives can be ZIPped up and sent to the backup drive) and defrag that backup drive after each update and if you want to be playful enough, note down the first sector of file(s) or if you want 100 percent safety, save the subdirectory having your important data as a file somewhere else. IF YOU DEFRAG FLOPPY/HDD REGULARLY, YOU GET THE UTMOST BENEFIT. IF YOU DONT, YOU CAN DO A RESEARCH on FAT FILE SYSTEMS. Supports FAT12 File Systems (Floppies) from DOS to WINDOWS 98 and FAT16 File Systems in DOS, WINDOWS 3.1/3.11, WINDOWS 95, and (up to 2 GB partitions in) WINDOWS 95-OSR2 and WINDOWS 98 (HDD can be 10 GB or 20 GB). The documentation for version 1.2a of the program received a 5-STAR rating. Future versions will help the user access what the OS cannot. A future version will withstand "entire directory and both FATs gone" situations. This program is certainly for those who backup because backup programs never talk about uncertainties w.r.t. FAT and Directory entries. A floppy or<<less

Recursive disk level data recovery analysis software for bad Floppy Disks. Single recursive run lists all files having a folder entry from an inaccessible floppy disk. Listed files and orphaned files can be recovered by using RECOVER Floppy Pro v1.0. Meant for floppy disks that generate Drive A: is not accessible or The disk in drive A: is not formatted error in WINDOWS. Runs from a DOS box in WINDOWS XP / 2000 / ME / 98 / 98SE / 95 / 95 OSR2. Depending on the version of the WINDOWS OS, a bad Boot Sector on a floppy disk generates Drive A: is not accessible or The disk in drive A: is not formatted error in WINDOWS. Drive A: is not accessible error means one of these other problems too: 1) Data Error (cyclic redundancy check) 2) The system cannot read from the specified device 3) The requested sector is not found. Mainly a bad Boot Sector and/or some other bad sectors in the system area of the floppy disk cause this error (again depending on the WINDOWS version): The disk in drive A: is not formatted Do you want to format it now. These are not big problems. There is no need to find bad sectors by yourself. There is no need to look at sector contents by yourself. And there is no need to make any decisions by yourself regarding what to recover, and what content belongs to what file. Analyzer for RECOVER Floppy Pro lists files with their cluster size and fragmentation status. This shows that this much of info is still available on the bad floppy. This ability to list the lost files ensures that your precious files can be recovered by using RECOVER Floppy Pro v1.0 (just $21 USD). In the case of a reformatted floppy disk, the analyzer can only list files having a folder entry. But RECOVER Floppy Pro can recover these orphaned files too giving them new names when they are recovered.

Whats new in this version: A double click runs the program on floppy in drive A: and lists files that can be recovered