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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
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Subject: Re: HELP- I've deleted my hard disk files!
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Date: 17 Dec 89 06:31:39 GMT
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In article <26538.2588ff63@drunivac.uucp> czmurek@drunivac.uucp writes:
>In article <6113@nigel.udel.EDU>, neumann@udel.edu (Brian R. Neumann) writes:
>> 
>> 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 

Watch out!  This is NOT what RECOVER does.  RECOVER does two things - if a
file contains some unreadable sectors, then RECOVER FILE will try to salvage
the rest.  

If you don't name a file, however, then RECOVER will try to fix
up a damaged directory structure by throwing it all away, and rebuilding
it from scratch based on the FAT.  Every file and subdirectory on your
disk gets moved to the root directory and named FILEnnnn.REC, until RECOVER
runs out of space there, and it quits.  This is such a useless and 
stupid thing to do that you're best off just deleting RECOVER.EXE or
RECOVER.COM from your disk, and forgetting it ever existed.

I just wish I could make as much money as Bill Gates does for the really
stupid things I do sometimes.

Duncan Murdoch