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From: mhg@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Mark H. Granoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: FastBack woes resolved! Thanks to all...
Keywords: FastBack
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Date: 31 Aug 88 12:23:33 GMT
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Here is an earnest "Thsnks!" to the net.  You all helped out when I
was in dire straights.  And the advice offered was correct, too! :-)

In short, I reformated under DOS 2.11, and started FRESTOREing again.
At the first sign of trouble, I pressed the tilde key (~).  FRESTORE
went into PATCH MODE and basically ignored its own disk labels and
errors (searching forward in the case of errors for the next directory
entry).  I cut my losses from 2.4MB to only 88Kb.  Most importantly
though, I got all my data back and it seems to be OK.

I think I'll make several backups before I attempt to upgrade DOS
versions again....

Again, thanks.