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From: czmurek@drunivac.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HELP- I've deleted my hard disk files!
Message-ID: <26538.2588ff63@drunivac.uucp>
Date: 15 Dec 89 14:27:47 GMT
References: <6113@nigel.udel.EDU>
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In article <6113@nigel.udel.EDU>, neumann@udel.edu (Brian R. Neumann) writes:
> I knew it would happen to me sometime.  I was clearing some floppies 
> on which to back up my hard disk archive files, and mistakenly typed 
> del *.* while in my \archives directory.  I've just started downloading 
> files from grape and simtel, and deleted about 10 Meg of zip files 
> WITH NO BACKUPS!  
> 
> Are there any public domain programs out there to UNdelete files on a
> hard disk?   I've made sure not to write any files onto the disk
> so that I won't overwrite these files until I know what's up.
> 

Brian:
	Worry not guy!  This happens to the rest of us- me more than 
once!  There are a few utilities that will solve your problem.  One of 
them comes with DOS - it is called recover.com but will change all the 
names to numbers like file0001 and file0002, so it is up to you to 
rename them but each archive has a name in its header.  There are two 
or three utilities that come with the Norton Utilities package that 
will also help you and they are not difficult to use - One of them 
lets you begin with the whole file name minus the first character 
which DOS erases to let itself know that the file has been deleted.  I 
would suggest that you get a copy of Norton.  It takes very little 
effort to recover the files once you get used to the program - less 
than 5 secs.
	Godd luck and please send to me and tell me if you need any 
more help...

-Chris