DaveDDS wrote on 2025-08-13, 15:14:

I've been working on/mostly finished a little tool which might be of use: […]
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I've been working on/mostly finished a little tool which might be of use:

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1Floppy Disk Recover
2
3use:    FDR <drive>: file[.FDR] [options]
4
5opts:   -L      Low density
6        -N      New
7        -M      force Monochrome
8        -?F     show Format of .FDR
9        -?I      ""  Interactive keys
10        -R      Review .FDR (no updaate))           FDR file.FDR
11        -I      Convert .FDR to raw .IMG              ""    ""   outfile
12
13FDR can help recover diskette sectors which fail "normal" reads, but may be
14read with minor drive alignment adjustments or other treaks.
15
16It will auto-read the entire disk, show the read-status of the tracks/sectors,
17then let you manually seek, select and try reading individual       ""      as
18you "tweak" the drive.

Regretable I'm travelling at the moment, and won't be able to properly update
my site for about a week - if you need it sooner, we could find a way to get
it to you.

This sounds interesting but there's no rush, whenever you can it's fine. Cheers!