Invisible wrote:
> 
> Moderately cute... but very bossy.
> 
> She's one of these people who has an attitude that she's important or 
> something, and everybody else had better recognise that.
> 
> I can do better. ;-)
> 

sometimes those scare me
it's like getting a date with the cutest girl in the class -then finding 
she has a squeaky voice and never shuts up


> That *is* of course the real question. But in true geek fashion, I'm 
> more intrigued by having an excuse to research the techniques involved 
> in data recovery than actually helping this person.
> 

You are right.

Way back in the day before hard drives I had the opportunity to repair 
an Apple IIe floppy disk where the file table 'catalog' got blown away.

Luckily I had a 'Disk Doctor' that would edit raw sectors so I could 
rebuild it.

The bad thing was that the 'Disk Doctor' was the one that got blown away.

I managed to fix the disk enough to run the main program so I could fix 
the rest of the disk.  Getting the first one back was murder - due to 
the lack of a good sector editor.

All in all I think I managed to recover everything but one or two files 
that I didn't care about.  Back then disks only held 360k so it wasn't 
all that much work.


Good Luck!



Tom

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