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From: luis@grinch.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: UNFORMATTING formated PC floppies
Message-ID: <231@grinch.grinch.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-May-87 02:00:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: grinch.231
Posted: Mon May 18 02:00:27 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 20-May-87 01:15:07 EDT
References: <4327@nsc.nsc.com> <3156@ecsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: luis@grinch.UUCP (Luis Chanu)
Organization: Textural Software, San Jose, CA.
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In article <3156@ecsvax.UUCP> phco@ecsvax.UUCP (John Miller) writes:
>You're out of luck.  Files that have been deleted can frequently be
>restored by programs such as Norton's Utilities or PC-Tools, but formatting
>destroys all data on a disk.

I have to dis-agree with you John.  I have used Mace Utilities, and it
can recover a formatted diskette (hard or soft).  I am not exactly sure
how it does it, but I have heard (don't know if true) that when you format
a disk, that you are only wiping the fat table, and re-writing the sector
ID's...  Anyway, all I know is that Mace Utilities does have an UN-FORMAT
feature.. Just thought you might like to know...  If for some reason or 
another the info above is out of date, or incorrect, I am sorry.. but, that 
is what they advertize.  I have Mace, but have not had the need to use 
Un-Format.

** I am not an employee, just a very happen user of their software. **

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