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Crashdisk · 19 March 2023, 14:48

If you have a damaged disk, it would be better to ask the community to find a good disk, rather than repair it with DiskSalv or DiskDoctor.
Why would you do that? Because when a data sector is damaged, these programs will not repair anything. They will either delete the damaged file or worse, correct the checksum so that the file can be opened but make no mistake, the data will be bad in 99,9% of the cases. The structure of the disk will also be altered so that if you repair the initial damaged disk 5 times, you will get 5 different repaired disks

About the damaged disk, there are 2 alterations:
- Modification of sector 880 by DiskCopy
- Sector 1707 is corrupted and affects the C/IPrefs file

Original disk or at least the closest existing one is CRC32 [5810AEC1]

19 March 2023, 14:48	#52
Crashdisk Moderator Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: France Age: 46 Posts: 1,992	If you have a damaged disk, it would be better to ask the community to find a good disk, rather than repair it with DiskSalv or DiskDoctor. Why would you do that? Because when a data sector is damaged, these programs will not repair anything. They will either delete the damaged file or worse, correct the checksum so that the file can be opened but make no mistake, the data will be bad in 99,9% of the cases. The structure of the disk will also be altered so that if you repair the initial damaged disk 5 times, you will get 5 different repaired disks About the damaged disk, there are 2 alterations: - Modification of sector 880 by DiskCopy - Sector 1707 is corrupted and affects the C/IPrefs file Original disk or at least the closest existing one is CRC32 [5810AEC1] Last edited by Crashdisk; 19 March 2023 at 14:54.