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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Can a deleted directory be restored?
Message-ID: <3172@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 88 15:27:18 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.

Use Nortons to bring up the directory that contains the deleted directory.
Since it too is nothing but a file (of sorts), manually change the first letter
of the directory name.  If I remember correctly the remaining information
should still be there.

Save the changes and get out of Nortons.  You need to get DOS to see it,
so basically just look at it to make sure that it was recovered.  It, of
course, should be empty.

If the directory took up more than one sector, you will need to find the
other sectors of the directory are rebuild the FAT table.  Norton's Advanced
Edition 4.0 allows easy editing of the FAT table, no fuss no bother.  You
can use Nortons to look around to find the appropriate sectors.  Once you have
fixed up the FAT table, you need to save those changes (be sure to fix both
copies of the FAT).

Once you have done that, then you can use the un-erase feature of Nortons to
un-erase files.  I suggest that you un-erase files that are 1 cluster long
first.  This will help Norton find longer segmented files.  If it hard to
explain the ins and outs of directory structures and file layouts on the
disk, but every little bit helps.
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