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From: todd@MEDIA-LAB.MIT.EDU
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Subject: Wiping out disk directories using PC-Intercomm
Message-ID: <8602130637.AA06202@MEDIA-LAB>
Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 02:20:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 02:20:20 1986
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I have just been using a friend's copy of PC-Intercomm, so I don't
need anyone telling me that I deserve the mess I've gotten myself
into.  But here is what happened.

I write protected the disk so I wouldn't alter anything.  I then tried
to download a file from a mainframe using the kermit protocol.  I got
a standard error message since the disk was write protected.  I stuck
in another disk (which, of course, was an important disk) and
proceeded normally.  When I exitted from PC-Intercomm, I found that
the directory of the second disk was written over with the directory
from the PC-Intercomm disk.

Using the Public Domain SectorEd program, I found that the directory
is definitely written over, but most of the text is still intact.

Now for the good part:  does anyone know how I can recover random data
from a disk?  Is there an easier solution than creating a directory by
hand? 

I would appreciate ANY help.

Todd Fujinaka (who wishes his development package would arrive soon)