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Stween
04-03-2001, 01:48 PM
Does anyone know of a way to recover lost files from a dos partition??
Sounds odd, i know, but i cant do it from within windows coz, well, i accidentally deleted every single file on my windoze partition....
That in itself wouldn't be so bad (after all, i only installed it yesterday), but i have in the region of 200megs of MP3s on there ...
PLEASE let there be some way to recover them!!!
Stween
ph34r
04-03-2001, 01:50 PM
200mb of mp3 is really nothing... in the big picture.
Something like Norton's utilities may be able to do it, but I think you are SOL...
Molecule Man
04-03-2001, 01:56 PM
Got money? Data recoverys service could probably get it back for a hefty fee. Also there are snoop progs out that can read old files even if the partion has been formatted, they could probably do it, but I don't know of any names. Also my understanding is that some files are going to be corrupted.
Stween
04-03-2001, 02:02 PM
Yeah, i know 200megs of MP3s isnt much, but at the moment i was meant to be burning them to a cd, not trying to recover them from oblivion!!! :)
Even if anyone knows of a DOS based undelete thing (that works on a VFAT fs - the old dos undelete i have doesn't seem to like it)...
Ok i deserve to be kicked off this board for that one...
Norton Utilities for Windows has a couple of file recovery/unerase functions which might get some of the data back. I think the package comes both with a bootable CD and emergency/rescue floppies.
Stween
04-03-2001, 04:28 PM
ive never paid for software such as what u mention, and i never intend to!!
Perhaps its time to stop living on the edge...
Linuxcool
04-03-2001, 08:22 PM
Go here: http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/
In the ' Search For ' box enter the word ' undelete ', then click on ' GO '. You'll get a list of programs that you can download and try out. Maybe one of these will work for you and you don't have to pay for it unless you keep it.
[ 03 April 2001: Message edited by: Linuxcool ]
bdg1983
04-04-2001, 06:02 AM
ive never paid for software such as what u mention, and i never intend to!!
PLEASE let there be some way to recover them!!!
You did ask... Then I would suggest you search the web for free undelete tools.
Stween
04-05-2001, 05:19 PM
just so's u no, i downloaded 'directory snoop', as advised by some1 who's name has escaped me at the minute. Yeah, its for windows, but i gave up hope of recovering anything from linux with any great ease pretty quick...
So i reinstalled WinME, then installed DS, and lo-and-behold the MP3s were still there :) I managed to retrieve 80megs, which isnt bad
aaah ... happy now
:D :D :D :D