Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!pyramid!prls!philabs!ttidca!svirsky
From: svirsky@ttidca.TTI.COM (Bill Svirsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Can a deleted directory be restored?
Message-ID: <3174@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 15 Sep 88 16:08:55 GMT
References: <17959@mirror.TMC.COM> <37741@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: svirsky@tab.tti.com (William Svirsky)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
Lines: 26

In article <37741@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky@yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) writes:
>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?
>
>My version of Norton explicitly says "you can't restore removed
>directories". I tried. Rats.

PC Tools Deluxe has a Norton-like utility that can undelete directories
as well as files.  Depending on how badly you need the files you deleted
you may want to buy it.  It retails for about $70, but you can usually
get it from discount stores for about $50, or mail order for as little
as $40.  The disk also includes a nice, fast (about 1 Meg/minute) backup
program, a disk cache program, a file "packer" program that can also scan
your disk for bad sectors and mark them bad, and a program that creates a
copy of your FAT elsewhere on your disk so if you, or a virus, munge the
FAT, it can rebuild the FAT.  There are some other nice features also.
I've been using it for about 6 months now and, apart from a few minor
quirks, it's worked great.

-- 
Bill Svirsky, Citicorp+TTI, 3100 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Work phone: 213-450-9111 x2597
svirsky@ttidca.tti.com | ...!{csun,psivax,rdlvax,retix}!ttidca!svirsky