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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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The price for that GREASEWEAZLE is really good, around just 25 euro! Anyone ever tried it? I have two floppies that have sentimental value for me. One is from elementary school, I wanted to do a backup five years ago with an USB drive and fucking Windows Defender "cleaned" a boot virus by quick formatting the drive. The USB drive ignored the status of the "read only" tab and allowed that. I wasn't able to recover the data with any data recovery software (it shows empty because the MBR has gone) but the data is there, visible with an hex editor from a full image
The other is from middle school but there's a zip file that I can't copy because of a damaged sector. I would still be pointless, right?
Give testdisk a run. I've had pretty good luck with it and it's FOSS