Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 09:18:01 GMT
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Off topic: Deleted file recovery
Arrgh... why does Hotmail mess uo text formatgting like this???
M.
>From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Off topic: Deleted file recovery
>Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 02:06:11 -0700
>
>Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 08:59:58 GMT
>From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Off topic: Deleted file recovery
>
>> You only need to change that one character back to any acceptable
>>ASCII character, and poof!, the file is back to where it was, 100%
>>intact.
>>
>> You do not need to make a copy of the file at any time. Even if you
>>manually attempt to recover the sectors, you do not need to make
>>another copy of the file -- you simply adjust the FAT pointers from the
>>first one on to point to the next sector in the file.
>>
>> Nothing, except FAT pointers and director entries, need to be touched
>>at all during the recovery process.
>
>So David, if this is so simple, and I'm not trying to imply that it's
>not...
>it DOES in fact sound quite simple... then why oh why after about 6-7 hours
>of scouring the Internet, couldn't I find anyone who has written such a
>simple DOS utility to do this???
>
>And of what use are Windows undelete utilities if they need to be run from
>a
>HDD that's booted Windows f the swap file and all these other little
>monster
>Windows programs are writing to the HDD all over the place?
>
>I'm certain that I just didn't look in the right places, and that
>relatively
>no one downloads or writes many DOS shareware programs of this sort
>anymore.
> Anyone remember trip glasses? Hey, lava lamps are back! :-)
>
>Matt
>
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