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From: hollen@eta.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: help with DISKCOPY
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Date: 7 Jun 89 13:05:55 GMT
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From article <1815@taux01.UUCP>, by cdddta@tasu76.UUCP (David Deitcher):
> A friend of mine is writing a book on a pc. He copied a game for his
> child from a floppy on to his work floppy using the DISKCOPY command.
> All of the sudden, three weeks worth of work were gone. Is there
> any software that can help him recover his original stuff or is
> it gone forever?
> 

Absolutely gone forever.  DISKCOPY copies one track at a time from
source to destination.  It does not know anything about files,
File Allocation Tables or directories.  It merely does a bit for bit
image copy from source to destination.  EVERYTHING previously on the
destination disk is wiped out with not even the slightest hope of
recovery.

How about backups, or is the painful way your friend has chosen
to teach himself the lesson of constantly backing up?


	Dion Hollenbeck             (619) 455-5590 x2814
	Megatek Corporation, 9645 Scranton Road, San Diego, CA  92121

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