Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!hellgate.utah.edu!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ncr-sd!palomar!dougm From: dougm@palomar.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Doug Marshall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Recovery of deleted files, help!!! Message-ID: <1958@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Date: 25 Oct 89 20:36:32 GMT References: <36440001@hpindwa.HP.COM> Sender: news@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM Reply-To: dougm@palomar.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Doug Marshall) Organization: NCR Corporation, Rancho Bernardo Lines: 17 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 Try Norton Utilities. >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 As I understand it, DOS simply makes the first character of the file name a question mark. If you don't have NU or some other commericial product, I think that there are 'track' editors in PD that you could use to change the first letter of the filename from a question mark to a letter. ---- Doug Marshall +1 619 485 3494 <...!ncr-sd!palomar!dougm> "All of us is smarter than each of us!"