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Accidentally bulk Moved some floppy files via Computer on Desktop, need to restore them on the floppy. No other source of them. . have not re-written to fdd. Is there ...
- 01-14-2007 #1Linux Newbie
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restore MOVED floppy files???
Accidentally bulk Moved some floppy files via Computer on Desktop, need to restore them on the floppy. No other source of them. . have not re-written to fdd. Is there a Linux undelete or whatever to fix this??? Should I see a hard disk serviceman to restore them? debug is not completely beyond me, but it's been a while....tks rjp
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- 01-16-2007 #2Linux User
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suggest step 1: make exact copy of the floppy
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/<some directory>/floppy
then step 2: depending what sort of files they are:
if text files, try an editor "ed floppy"the sun is new every day (heraclitus)
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