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- HOW TO USE UNDEL.COM
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- UNDEL.COM is a program which will recover files that have been
- deleted. The BASIC source code was listed in an article by Steven
- Holzner in the April 2, 1985 issue of PC Magazine, Volume 4,
- Number 7.
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- UNDEL.COM has the following limitations:
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- 1. It only works on 360k double sided disks formatted under
- DOS 2.0 or 2.1. Perhaps hard disk users wishing to
- undelete files should consider purchasing the Norton
- Utilities.
- 2. It only works if the deleted file has not been
- overwritten by another file.
- 3. It is not always successful in recovering non-contiguous
- files. A file is said to be non-contiguous if it does
- not occupy consecutive clusters on the disk, which is
- common on disks that have been written to and deleted
- from several times. Use the CHKDSK *.* command to identify
- non-contiguous files. If desired regroup all files on a
- fragmented disk by using the copy a:*.* b: command.
- 4. It does not recognize path names.
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- When a file is deleted, the clusters it occupied are still intact.
- The changes occur on the disk directory and the file allocation
- table (commonly known as the FAT). UNDEL.COM restores the
- directory and FAT entries to what they were before the file was
- deleted. A file is not lost forever until it is overwritten by
- another file. To undelete a file use UNDEL.COM as follows:
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- 1. Do not copy UNDEL.COM onto the disk with the file to
- be recovered, or the lost file will probably be
- overwritten. UNDEL.COM should be on a different
- drive, either a physical drive or a RAMDISK.
- 2. To recover a file on B: called TEST.COM when UNDEL.COM
- is on A:, enter the following command at the DOS prompt:
- A>undel b:test.com
- 3. To recover an ASCII (text) file called HELLO.TXT, use
- the /A parameter (A as in ask) as follows:
- A>undel/a b:hello.txt
- The /A parameter prints a few lines from each
- unassigned cluster on the screen and asks for a Y/N
- verification as it chains the file together. The /A
- parameter will not work on a binary files such as
- .COM, .EXE, or BASIC programs not saved in the
- ASCII format. When binary files are recovered,
- unassigned clusters are chained together until the
- proper file length is reached.
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- To get the complete story, see the article in the above mentioned
- issue of PC Magazine.
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- To print this file, set the printer to the top of the page and
- enter the following command:
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- A>copy UNDEL.DOC prn
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