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From: ben@catnip.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: UNFORMATTING formated PC floppies
Message-ID: <484@catnip.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-May-87 17:21:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: catnip.484
Posted: Wed May 27 17:21:56 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 29-May-87 01:58:31 EDT
References: <4327@nsc.nsc.com> <3156@ecsvax.UUCP> <231@grinch.grinch.UUCP>
Reply-To: ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
Organization: The Broder Residence, Holmdel, NJ  07733
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In article <231@grinch.grinch.UUCP> luis@grinch.UUCP (Luis Chanu) writes:
>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).

As other readers have already pointed out, neither Mace nor any other utility
can do this.

> I have Mace, but have not had the need to use Un-Format.

If you have Mace, why didn't you try to 'unformat' a diskette before
contradicting John?  Your misinformation could cost an unwary net
reader untold grief if he was to proceed with less caution in handling
his diskettes, believing that he could undo his mistakes for the cost of
a copy of the Mace utilities.

I don't want to sound like I'm coming down hard on Luis for an honest
mistake, but I strongly believe that Usenet would be a much more useful
resource if people would take reasonable precautions to assure accuracy in
their postings.

-- 

Ben Broder
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