ScuzzBlog: Diaries June 2026 Entry 12th June 2026: Post 1: Amiga Disk Recovery - The Video. Amiga Disk Recovery - The Video. Whilst I was salvaging an old defunct Workbench 1.3 disk I decided to grab my Canon camera and make a crude video of the whole process. I have to apologize for some of the shots being a little shaky and at times out of focus, but I only was aware after I had taken the video. I wasn't able to do it again cus the disk was mended. I am sure you get the idea. Boring or what !!! Amiga Disk Recovery - The Video. The processes 01 Amiga 1200 - disk broken 02 External Drives - disk broken 03 Clean Drives - Wait for file structure to show 04 Attempt to copy to RAM 05 Slow process building a copy of the disk 06 All the zeroes show failed attempts 07 Eventually successful and copied to RAM 08 Made copy of contents to Empty disk 09 Created LHA and ADF files and stored 10 Successfully created fresh disk 11 Bonus - The original disk now works. Sorry for some of the blurred images. I wasn't able to redo the video as it was reliant on the disk being busted. But I mended it. You get the idea. The trick is to keep rotating the disk in the drives till one kicks in and shows the disk structure and then just keep copying to RAM until you successfully have all the contents. Failed copies show as zeroes. Generally after a time the disk just seems to mend itself. Incredible.

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Last updated 12th June 2026

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