From: ZsdbUse1+noZs_0612@Zbigfoot.Zcom.invalid   
      
   On 19 Dec 2006 23:57:10 -0800, vad  wrote:   
   > in the 80's I used a data recovery tool (spinrite-?) which   
   > automatically looked for structures that looked like dbase files.  I   
   > was able to successfully transfer a kaypro database to a MS-DOS system   
   > using this tool... strange, eh?  I can't remember if Spinrite did this   
   > or Norton Disk Doctor or if it was another, but if you can do the   
      
   Not spinrite.  All that did was low-level formatting without losing   
   data.  (To keep the data aligned with the heads which tended to drift a   
   bit as the drives aged.)  Norton DD might have done something like that,   
   but I don't remember it.  Diskedit was pretty good though.  :)   
      
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