samb@tekcae.UUCP (Sam Bennett) (05/07/86)
A friend called me the other night having just initialized one of his system disks. He wanted to know if I could help him recover his files. I have heard of programs that do this but do not have one and don't know where to get one. Can anyone point me in the right direction of a program ? Is there a way I can edit back in whatever was taken out of the directory track to reach the files ? Others might find this information useful so please respond by any means you would like.
6080733@pucc.BITNET (Gavin Bell) (05/09/86)
> A friend called me the other night having just initialized one of his >system disks. He wanted to know if I could help him recover his files. >I have heard of programs that do this but do not have one and don't know >where to get one. Can anyone point me in the right direction of a program ? >Is there a way I can edit back in whatever was taken out of the directory >track to reach the files ? -------------- Well, it depends. If your friend did a 'long new' (n0:diskname,id) then there is no chance of recovery, since the drive writes over every track on the disk while initializing it. If he did a 'short new' (n0:diskname) then only the disk directory is wiped. It is still tough to get the files back, however. Inside the 1541 by Datamost describes the technique for recovering files from a short new-- it basically consists of guessing where the file starts by using a disk editor and looking for information that looks like the start of the program (not too tough if it's in Basic-- almost impossible if it was machine language) and creating a directory entry with the proper track/ sector links. I don't think there are any programs smart enough to do this automatically, although I may be wrong... Frederick J. Bear (I have too much hair-- SCARE Fred Bear!) UUCP: ...allegra!psuvax1!pucc.bitnet!6080733 BITNET: 6080733@PUCC