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From: misha@nsc.nsc.com (Michael Umansky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: UNFORMATTING formated PC floppies
Message-ID: <4327@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 22:43:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: nsc.4327
Posted: Thu May 14 22:43:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 14:09:51 EDT
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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Hi.

Does anyone know if it is possible to recover data from an accidentally
formatted diskette.  I started a PC-DOS 3.2 format on a good diskette with
some games.  I realized my error and aborted the format within about 2
seconds but it was too late.  Now it tells me that it can't read the floppy.
I heard the the PC-DOS format doesn't actually zero out data on disk but
rather overwrites the FAT entries.  I would like to recover the data so
that I would not have to spend lots of time trying to remember what I had
on the floppy disk.  Thanx.
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