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From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Recovery of deleted files, help!!!
Message-ID: <7818@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 89 13:21:29 GMT
References: <36440001@hpindwa.HP.COM>
Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division
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In article <36440001@hpindwa.HP.COM> owenc@hpindwa.HP.COM (Owen Cheung) writes:
>
>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


THIS IS IMPORTANT !!!  DO   N O T  do anything on this diskette that involves
writing to it,or you may not be able to recover those deleted files!

If your friend does not have Norton Utilities or PCtools or a similar package
he should get it. They contain several tools which will easily restore
deleted files, as long as they have not yet been overwritten by subseqauent
disk writing.