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Is this disk salvageable?
Posted by: elemenoh on 2020-11-01 17:39:21
Apple II folks, can you help with this? I have a disk I’m trying to image, but can’t even get it to read. I verified I can read other disks. In the video below is a Fantavision disk that doesn’t read side A, but does read side B. The disk to image doesn’t read at all. It sounds similar (but a little different) to the failed side of Fantavision.
Are the noises just the drive looking for track 0?
Are there any things I can try to recover data from the disk?


View attachment 1531659973_IMG_0073(1).mov


Posted by: karrots on 2020-11-01 19:43:32
You'd probably have to use a flux imager to have any possibility of recovery.

Posted by: MichaelLAX on 2020-11-06 00:08:01
40 years ago I used Bag of Tricks to recover a crashed disk sector by sector to screen and then took pictures of the information to then retype it.

The Flux Imager would not work unless you had the very rare CRM-114 installed.

View attachment 873358189_BagofTricksManualKB.pdf View attachment bag_of_tricks.dsk

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