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From: owenc@hpindwa.HP.COM (Owen Cheung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Recovery of deleted files, help!!!
Message-ID: <36440001@hpindwa.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Oct 89 17:10:19 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino CA
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A friend of mine accidentially deleted some important files from his floppy.
Does anybody know any way of recovering these files?  I don't know how the
MS-DOS file system works, but some of the other file systems that I know
only marks a bit in the directory when a file is deleted.  Thus, if someone
knows how the file directory is structured, it would be very easy to
reset that bit and recover that file.  Does the MS-DOS file system works
the same way?  Does anybody know any public domain or commercial programs
that can recover deleted files?  Any help is appreciated.


Owen