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From: connery@bnrmtv.UUCP (Glenn Connery)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: UNERASE.COM WARNING
Message-ID: <336@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Apr-86 20:43:02 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 16 20:43:02 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Apr-86 20:56:14 EST
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Organization: Bell Northern Research, Mtn. View, CA
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> WARNING!
> Beware of using a program called unerase.com.
> I tried to use it yesterday on my IBM compat running PC-DOS 3.1,
> and not only did it not recover the file, but it managled my disk.
> I ended up lossing 5 more files.
> 
> I suggest that before using any unerase program, you copy the remaining
> programs/files onto other disk, just in case..
> 
> Brad
> qantel!proper!elric
> lll-crg!dual!proper!elric
> ucbvax!dual!proper!elric

If this is the unerase program from PC Magazine (quite a while ago now),
it only works on floppies.  If you tried to use it on a hard disk, it
might well have done what you said.  I have used the Norton utilitie's
unerase capabilities for a long time, both on my Compaq at home and on
an XT and now an AT at work, through numerous versions and have never had
a single problem.  Perhaps your compatible is not as compatible as it
should be?
-- 

Glenn Connery, Bell Northern Research, Mountain View, CA
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