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- From: steibel@venus.cs.umbc.edu (David M. Steibel)
- Subject: Re: HELP! restoring deleted HPFS files
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.020506.26066@umbc3.umbc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
- References: <1992Jul29.173050.16406@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1992Jul29.203713.22852@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 02:05:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.203713.22852@midway.uchicago.edu>
- sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- > In article <1992Jul29.173050.16406@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- bassin@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Ed Bassin - Sociology;S23679) writes:
- >> Fool that I am, yesterday I erased an entire directory off my HPFS
- >> partition. Unfortunately, my backup won't restore and to add insult to
- >> injury, I discovered that my SET DELDIR line was prefixed with a REM. Is
- >> there an equivalent to Norton's quick unerase for HPFS? Please say yes.
- >
- > The GammaTech Utilities have HPFS unerase. There's also a utility
- > called Phoenix, available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu,
- > which should do the trick.
-
- I just thought I should say that writing any new data to the drive will
- probably overwrite your old data. Also, shutting down the system might
- also erase some of your data. I'm not really positive if this would happen,
- but since you seem to think your lost data is important, it is something
- to keep in mind.
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- If I were you, I would get a copy of ``Phoenix'' on a floppy disk, load it
- and cross your fingers. Of course, if you've used your drive since the
- loss of your data, and writes have been involved, you could be out of
- luck.
-
- Try to use another computer in order to make the floppy. I assume you
- haven't done anything that involves writes.
-
- Hope it helps..
-
- --
- David M. Steibel; Author of the Demacs FAQ; Internet: steibel@cs.umbc.edu
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