[prowler]

Originally Posted by chip

For the moment it's not needed, thanks anyway
The option which talked about Crashdisk worked fine for me, indeed

ADF is created from DMS even if it is damaged
You misunderstood my request, anyway

I'm not interested in recovering the files from the disk image
I guess this is possible to do with tools like the one you used, indeed

I wanted only a .ADF in a place of a .DMS, only that .-)

I wasn't interested in recovering the files from the disk image either, I was looking to repair a set of corrupted DMS disk images, so that they would unpack correctly to the corresponding ADF disk images, and in that I was successful.

But since then (early 2005), a tool has become available for unpacking a damaged DMS file by ignoring CRC errors to salvage the ADF, which one might well have a better chance of fully recovering.

xDMS 1.3.3 is available here.

It is a Win32 command line utility with the following features:

 xDMS  v1.3.3  -  Portable DMS archive unpacker  -  Public Domain
 Written by     Andre Rodrigues de la Rocha  <adlroc@usa.net>
 Maintained by  Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>

 Usage: xdms [options] <command> {<dms_file[.dms]> [+output]}

 Commands :
     t : Test DMS archives
     u : Unpack DMS archives to disk images
     z : Unpack to disk images and compress it with gzip
     x : Extract files inside DMS archives using readdisk
     v : View DMS archives information
     f : View full information
     d : Show attached FILEID.DIZ
     b : Show attached Banner

 Options :
    -f : Override errors (for desperate data salvaging)
    -q : Quiet
    -v : Verbose
    -d <destdir>  : Set destination directory
    -p <password> : Decrypt encrypted archives using password

To unpack damaged files requires the -f option and u command.

This version of the tool did not become available until 2006, but it now means that nobody will be needing more guidance than that which appears in the code box above.

Source code is available here.