[Info-vax] Best way to get what I can off a failed VMS Disk?

[Volker Halle]

Chris,

there is also the DISKBLOCK freeware tool. You could mount the disk /FOREIGN/NOWRITE and then access files, as long as the file headers in the index file are readable. You can search for file names in the index file and COPY individual files from that disk to another disk.

You'll find DISKBLOCK on the OpenVMS Freeware CDs, the most recent version (V6.3) can be found on:

https://eisner.decuserve.org/~halle/

Volker.