On 3/31/07, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > > They hadn't paid attentions to the messages telling them they were > > about to format their hard drive, or they didn't realize what "format" > > meant, or they sort of assumed FreeDOS would somehow be smart enough > > _not_ to wipe their Windows partition. They wanted to know what I was > > going to do to get their data back. > > That is strange. FreeDOS 1.0 should NOT suggest to format > an already FAT formatted partition again! It has checks > for that... And if the partition is NTFS, it will not be > visible for DOS, so you would have to use FDISK to shoot > yourself in the foot in THAT content. That said, I think > nobody should ever use DOS FDISK unless he learned how > to use it as a teenager in MS DOS times ;-). >
The site got a facelift shortly before we released 1.0, so I added that message during the Beta9 days. There were also a lot of Beta8 still floating around. > About getting data back: Depending on how fast you find > out what happened and depending on whether you used > quick safe format or rather quick doomsday format or > even surface wipe format, you can try our elegant > "FORMAT c: /z:unformat" > to get some data back. But be WARNED that an unformat can > easily make things worse if you do it at another time > than very short after an accidental format. Short meaning > "you have not written much to the disk after format" here. > Often, I think users will try to fix the problem themselves before asking for help. In which case, they've already messed with the disk, written files, etc. And if the user is a newbie to begin with, I doubt I'd try to walk them through the difficulties of an unformat via email. -jh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
