About a month ago I lost my c: drive. I was unable to recover my Legacy
database of 65,000 names from the drive using Norton Utilities.
However, I knew I had a backup on floppy that was only 2 weeks old. So I
tried to reload that. Unfortunately, the first floppy has a bad cluster, so
Legacy and WinZip were unable to read beyond it.
Because this is a multi-volume zip file, everything becomes more difficult.
I can't fix it with Windows' ScanDisk, because the diskette is full already,
and there is no place to write a replacement file. I can't copy it to a
hard drive, because of the bad cluster.
I would have expected that, if the diskette was bad in the first place, that
it would be taken care of (and a warning message issued) by Legacy when the
data was backed up. But that doesn't much matter at this point. Does
anyone have a suggested solution? Does anyone know how to recover from this
type of error? Is there shareware software that will copy the file as is
back to a hard drive, so I can run ScanDisk on it? Optimally, I would like
to end up with one contiguous zip file on my hard drive containing all the
volumes from floppy. Then perhaps I can recover using Norton.
Any ideas appreciated. Please reply directly, rather than to the list.
