Test Drive II: European Challenge - Recovery to Disk
Test Drive II : European Challenge 3.5 Diskette
From Test Drive II : The Collection
As we can see once diskette is first used it becomes modified. This copy has DISKID.DAT modified, the addition of EC_HISC.DAT as well as the modification of Root ID.
Here we have HxC view of KF dump:
We can also see modified tracks using KF console:
Thanks to use "ibmpc5150" here is recovered image. This is .PSI image converted to .TD0 using PSI.EXE:
Now affected tracks 0.0/0.1/33.1 are converted to KF and inserted into original dump. Notice how sectors are shifted for some reason:
Recovered tracks are shifted back to expected position. Also notice how sector width is slightly increased. Nevertheless, the RAW image is ready to be written to fresh diskette.
Recovered file listing:
From Test Drive II : The Collection
As we can see once diskette is first used it becomes modified. This copy has DISKID.DAT modified, the addition of EC_HISC.DAT as well as the modification of Root ID.
Here we have HxC view of KF dump:
We can also see modified tracks using KF console:
Thanks to use "ibmpc5150" here is recovered image. This is .PSI image converted to .TD0 using PSI.EXE:
Now affected tracks 0.0/0.1/33.1 are converted to KF and inserted into original dump. Notice how sectors are shifted for some reason:
Recovered tracks are shifted back to expected position. Also notice how sector width is slightly increased. Nevertheless, the RAW image is ready to be written to fresh diskette.
Recovered file listing:
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