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From: spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Can a deleted directory be restored?
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Date: 13 Sep 88 23:49:30 GMT
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In article <17959@mirror.TMC.COM> mguyott@prism.TMC.COM (Marc Guyott) writes:
| I know that files can be undeleted using the Norton Utilities.  However,
| I deleted all of the files in a directory and then removed the directory.
| Is there any way that I can restore the directory so that I can then
| undelete the files using the Norton Utilities?  After I removed the directory
| I powered my machine off, so I don't believe I've disturbed the FAT or any
| other file system tables.  Any help will be appreciated.

You'd think this would be possible, wouldn't you ;-)

My version of Norton explicitly says "you can't restore removed
directories". I tried. Rats.

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