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> written in Ada to master all concerns of
> all boot records including MBR and partitions, erroneous too,
> in a reliable cautious preserving dialog with a (sysman) user.
  I have parts of that but they are in Ada 83 to run under DOS.  An
NTFS disk got corrupted and was totally inaccessible under Windows,
but this program was able to find and copy many files.  Direct port IO
and Int 16#13# calls from the DOS program did the trick.