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To: Gottfried who wrote (39179)2/3/2004 5:27:42 PM
From: Esteban  Read Replies (1) of 110626
 
Larry, fwiw it's not unusual in my experience to fail to recover a file from a floppy.

Gottfried, it is usual in my experience to fail to recover a file from a floppy.

Which is why I have recently gone to the trouble of creating a rescue cd to boot from. I used the Langa model. It was pretty easy in retrospect, but the devil was in the details. The result is a dos bootable cd that contains both Drive Image and Partition Magic, plus some hard disk diagnostic software. It's a good feeling not to be relying on the whims of floppy technology to rescue my computers.

Thanks to tc for the Rescue cd link. If anybody wants to build one of these, I can provide a few tips that may ease the process.

Esteban
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