Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:18:32 +0100
From: "Dave Collingwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Off topic: Deleted file recovery
Matt wrote:
>>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.
>
>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???
Ditto.
When Ive had problems like this previously, I tried for ages to find
something to fix it, but the nearest that I could get was seriously crippled
software that ran under windows Slooowwwwwllllyyyyyyy and then only
retrieved 10 files each time it was run.
>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?
Exactly.
Most of the time you can get away with it, but then its not a perfect
solution. Mind you, you shouldnt have deleteed the files in the first place,
but you dont need me to tell you that. =O)
On ething Ive always found useful is to have multiple partitions, with all
important data stored well away from windows.
>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.
I gave up looking, figured that no-one made this software, and went and
found Norton Utilities 4.0
Quite a handy package, has got a DOS undelete (works great!), DOS
unformatter (save me a few times too, long story), and various other windows
utils including a deletion program that supposedly makes it impossible to
retrieve the file. Use with caution =O)
Cheers
Dave
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