Post AmJlS2FHz74aOmNPHs by chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
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 (DIR) Post #AmJhrF68w9JXgOrYo4 by david@theblower.au
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       Today’s library request: extract files off a Zip disk where there is no information about origin statement it came from. Windows doesn’t recognise it, so now trying to boot a 32bit Linux distribution in the hopes it might be able to read it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AmJi0sqCXjspY80Gyu by david@theblower.au
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       In other news, booting off USB2 is amazingly slow.
       
 (DIR) Post #AmJkk3YpjXN3jhY0eG by frogglin@theblower.au
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       @david Have you tried typing in a long stream of nonsense and then whispering "I'm in"?
       
 (DIR) Post #AmJlS2FHz74aOmNPHs by chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
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       @david blue and white G3 Macs came with Zip disks sometimes I believe!
       
 (DIR) Post #AmJn1WN44SX1v8UxWa by tyno@bne.social
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       @david device would not boot. Wiped and disposed. No one will ever know.
       
 (DIR) Post #AmJqet1w3f8tLx4t1s by valhalla@social.gl-como.it
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       @david did you find what filesystem it was using / what type of computer probably it came from?
       
 (DIR) Post #AmJqu0ub2KcC8orGoi by valhalla@social.gl-como.it
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       @david wait, i see that it's mentioning the Iomega Tools, does that mean that it is encrypted before the filesystem?
       
 (DIR) Post #AmJrMFrH3lN4bZlqEq by GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org
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       @david The password was lost when they repainted the office.
       
 (DIR) Post #AmJskbh7cmVHEWCKjg by GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org
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       @david Ouch!This is BAD™.
       
 (DIR) Post #AmK3Mp1hVJxT7wgV1M by markhansen@hachyderm.io
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       @david consider using ddrescue if dd is struggling, I was able to get more data off the very old drives by using ddrescue’s retries if bad sectors sometimes
       
 (DIR) Post #AmKSNVFl0J60wegGmm by chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
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       @david that sounds doable!
       
 (DIR) Post #AmPbeNka1VEtya1MHI by david@theblower.au
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       Disk recovery successful. 96Mb of 100Mb read. Of course that was only part of the fun. Next bit was finding something to read an HFS format disk (MacOSX dropped HFS support from 10.6 onwards). Luckily i have a working G4 Powerbook with 10.5 on it, and it read the disk image fine. I created an HFS+ disk image, copied the files to that and could then read that on my modem Mac. Documents seem to be in Word 6 for Mac format, which should be readable in LibreOffice iirc.
       
 (DIR) Post #AmPdxL5GMR1V7IrWVc by cefiar@chinwag.org
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       @david DiskJockey is probably a good tool for this. https://diskjockey.onegeekarmy.eu/Note: Make a backup of the image before pointing any piece of software at it. Always better safe than sorry.
       
 (DIR) Post #AmQ1TeNuQzwvBnxaoy by valhalla@social.gl-como.it
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       @david woooooo!do I dare to ask: were they the documents the library wanted?
       
 (DIR) Post #AmQ2uLbsRjX2jXmtXs by valhalla@social.gl-como.it
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       @david that's historical porn! it will be of interest to researchers!