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From: bmiller@PRC.Unisys.COM (Bruce J. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: HELP! Used RECOVER instead of RESTORE
Keywords: Is there any hope?
Message-ID: <9077@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>
Date: 27 Jan 89 13:42:40 GMT
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Organization: Unisys/Paoli Research Center, Paoli, PA 19301
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	A co-worker was attempting to retrieve some files from floppy which
he was told had been created by using BACKUP.  Instead of using RESTORE, 
he used RECOVER.  The result was a disk with a directory full of files
named "FILExxxx.RES" where xxxx are sequential numbers up to the number of
original files on the disk.  The original file names appear to be lost; it
also appears that the number of bytes in each file has increased slightly.
He does not know the original file names nor their order in the directory.

	Is there any hope of reversing this process, or does he bag it and
try to get new copies of the files?  Any useful data would be appreciated.
(Please don't say "DUMMY!" - we already did that).  We are using MS-DOS 3.3;
some tools (Norton) are available.

	Replies via email are OK, or post if you think it's of general
interest.  Thanks a lot.

		Bruce Miller (burdvax.prc.unisys.com)