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From: rrj@unh.UUCP (Robert R Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Drive undelete
Summary: Fixdisk
Keywords: undelete recover hard drive
Message-ID: <1236@unh.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 16:27:51 GMT
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Organization: University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
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Not too long ago I invadvertantly deleted an entire directory from my
Hard drive.  This directory actually contained a data file that contained
over two years of data records.  At this point I nearly cried.  But because
I had previously owned a Commodore 128 and had undeleted files from from
floppies, I knew that there had to be a way.  Fortunately, a friend of mine
had just given me a copy of a utility which he downloaded from
comp.binaries.amiga.  It's called FixDisk.  Reading the short doc file
that was in the archive told me that the author did not have a hard drive
and therefor could not guarantee that his program would work with one.

To make a long story short (really!), I ran the program from the CLI with
this invocation.

> fixdisk doom

Surprisingly, this neat little program started reading my entire hard drive.
About 25 minutes later it was done.  The program then allowed me to
undelete the files that I wanted (acutally, I had to copy them to a floppy and
then re copy them to the hard drive).  I'm posting this story so that others
with this problem may get some help.  I can't recall the author's name but
If someone is intersted send me mail and I'll try to help.