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LastHope
Written by Manuel Lemos
Version of 27th of May of 1991
- Preface
LastHope was written to help those who perhaps where victims of the
mistake of deleting files that were not supposed to be.
There are several programs, either commercial or public domain, but
I don't any that can retrieve files which its headers had been wiped or
just unreadable.
For now, this program can only preform this task on standard file
system (SFS) diskettes, which means that the program can do nothing for
fast file system (FFS) diskettes.
This program hould be perhaps the last thing you should try before
you suicide. That's why I named it "LastHope". If you want to repair a
disk with damaged sectors, I suggest you try programs like "FixDisk"
before. I strongly discourage the use of "Disk-Doctor" which comes with
the workbench disk (ignore system requesters that tell you to use it),
because it tries to recover files to the same disk, overwriting intact
and not deleted files with files with the same name that had been
deleted. If you want to recover files from a device that uses FFS, say a
Hard-Disk for instance, try perhaps "QuarterBack Tools", but remember
that this program is not public domain.
One important thing, is that you should always keep a backup copy
of your work or programs, which almost of times saves you the grief of
losing your dear bytes. If you are an Hard-Disk user, I perhaps would
advise you to use "SuperBack". For floppy disks, any disk copy program
would do.
- Small print
Every time you use this program to save your skin, think about the
programmer because he had already thought about you, and feel free to
contribute just a small sum which the shareware fee and write to make
any improvement suggestions or tell about any noticed bugs.
- How it moves
Whatever you do, do nothing that you haven't been told to. Just
follow the messages. This program won't make you disk worse as it is.
For starters, click over the start diagnostic gadget, and then select
the drive where your disk will be placed and insert it.
The program will then bitmap your disk. If click over the any of the
colored boxes that will appear, the program will display a relevant
message of the correspondent disk sector.
As soon as the disk scan terminates, the program will display all
fully recoverable files with or without header, in a requester for you
to select. The program cannot recover partially destroyed files. If your
disk has been infected by Lamer Exterminator virus, files may have been
randomly destroyed (refer to "VirusX" documentation), and the infected
sectors will be marked with a red box. If a partially destroyed file is
any good to you, "Fix Disk" or "DiskX" may help. The main function of
this program is to recover headerless files even it can do more.
If then you have selected any file to recover, you will be then
prompted with yet another requester for you to specify a directory where
to recover the selected files. Don't choose a directory that will be
placed in the very same drive where your disk has been inserted. That
drive will be marked unreadable, while the recovery is being done. Use
RAM DISK if you don't have another drive.
Whenever this program recovers your missing file, remember to reward
the programmer that thought about you.
the programmer
Manuel Lemos
Pcta. Dr. Agostinho Campos,8
3800 AVEIRO
PORTUGAL