bilbo@pnet02.cts.com (Bill Daggett) (04/28/88)
Is there a new version of "Undelete" or a different "something" that will
locate and undelete files in a hard drive partition?
Bill
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From: trantow@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Jerry J Trantow) Path: csd4.milw.wisc.edu!trantow Do you know what happens if you open a drawer, select some icons with extended select, and choose discard from the menu??? It's sort of fun watching your files disappear, until you see the window disappear and the drawer go away. Oh Sh%t, the drawer icon was selected!! Stupid Mistake. No problem, right? Well the only undelete programs I have are ancient and only work with floppies. I have SectoRama or something close to that, but will it work with FFS? Does anyone have a simple undelete command that will work with a hard disk FFS partition? Right now I have one partition of my harddrive that I am afraid to use until I can get the files back. (The name of the partition is DATA:, which means I can not balance the old checkbook untill I resolve this.) Thanks in advance. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jerry J. Trantow | A man should be ashamed to die unless he has won 1560 A. East Irving Place | at least on battle for humanity. Horace Mann Milwaukee, Wi 53202-1460 | Ethics may not bring material gain, (414) 289-0503 | but self respect is priceless. _____________________________________________________________________________
richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (03/19/89)
In article <1606@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> trantow@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Jerry J Trantow) writes: > >Does anyone have a simple undelete command that will work with a hard disk >FFS partition? Right now I have one partition of my harddrive that I am >afraid to use until I can get the files back. (The name of the partition >is DATA:, which means I can not balance the old checkbook untill I resolve >this.) >Thanks in advance. I use DiskSalv. When you delete a file you didnt really mean to, you must remember to not write to that device again. Run disk salv and it will allow you to recover selected files (ie. only the one you deleted). ``works for me'' -- ``Quick Robin ! The Bat-Listings !'' richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV
bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer @ Wit's End) (03/22/89)
In article <13473@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: =- =-I use DiskSalv. =- =-When you delete a file you didnt really mean to, you must remember =-to not write to that device again. Run disk salv and it will =-allow you to recover selected files (ie. only the one you =-deleted). =- =-``works for me'' For me too, and I can even go make myself a sandwich during the 20 minutes that DiskSalv takes to scan my 80meg partition. ______________________________________________________________________________ /_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/ |_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____| _No dark sarcasm in the classroom|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|___ |____Teachers leave the kids alone__|_____|_____|_____|_bryan@cs.utexas.edu___| ___|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|{vertebrae...}!cs.utexas.edu!bryan_|___ |_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|
daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) (03/24/89)
in article <315@mohawk.cs.utexas.edu>, bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer @ Wit's End) says: > Spam-Content: Within EPA limits > In article <13473@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: > =-I use DiskSalv. > For me too, and I can even go make myself a sandwich during the 20 > minutes that DiskSalv takes to scan my 80meg partition. Well, you could get a smaller drive. Or start DiskSalv at the disk ROOT, where you often find most files located. But other than that, there's not a heck of alot I can do to speed up the scanning phase (the last bit of speedup I did involved the little "DiskSalv Scan" window that opens up during a scan; writing directly to the window, rather than to a console, made scanning over twice as fast. If you want it any faster, use the QUICK option. While it's by no means a perfect solution to your problem, a new version of DiskSalv is nearly complete that makes this kind of thing less painful if not perfect. The new version supports a new option that will let you scan and match a given file name regular expression. Thus, DiskSalv DF0: DRF: FILE #?.c Would scan for only files that match the #?.c pattern, in any directory, on the input disk. A true undelete program, aside from possessing the ability to relink a file rather than just recover it as DiskSalv does, would do well to get real smart about the directory scanning phase of the operation. There's really nothing you can do, in worst case, to avoid scanning over most of the disk, but you can make some intelligent guesses about where a child file might be if you know where its parent is. I have been thinking on the subject, but unfortunately haven't had any time to go beyond the thought stage on this one. -- Dave Haynie "The 32 Bit Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy Amiga -- It's not just a job, it's an obsession
bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer @ Wit's End) (03/24/89)
In article <6393@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: =-in article <315@mohawk.cs.utexas.edu>, bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer @ Wit's End) says: =-> Spam-Content: Within EPA limits =-> In article <13473@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: =- =-> =-I use DiskSalv. [to undelete] =- =-> For me too, and I can even go make myself a sandwich during the 20 =-> minutes that DiskSalv takes to scan my 80meg partition. =- =- [reasons why DiskSalv takes a while to undelete] With apologies to Chris Elliot: Dave, Dave, Dave---I wasn't knocking the program that has saved so many so much grief and lost data, not to mention me from having to send back my ARexx distribution disk. I was just (too subtly, I guess) pointing out that using DiskSalv to undelete is like swatting flies with the Oxford English Dictionary. ______________________________________________________________________________ /_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/ |_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____| _No dark sarcasm in the classroom|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|___ |____Teachers leave the kids alone__|_____|_____|_____|_bryan@cs.utexas.edu___| ___|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|{vertebrae...}!cs.utexas.edu!bryan_|___ |_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|
AAW151%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (Andy Patrizio) (11/29/90)
Talk about your ultimate bummers... I use my Amiga for writing scripts, primarily. I like Word Perfect more than MS Word on either the M*c or I*M. And, for the most part, it handles script formats very well. (why my agent uses an Atari ST I'll never know...) Buuuuuut, one day I went to call up my movie, all 128 pages (132K), and guess what? No file. Somehow it got killed, and I have nothing to undelete it. Where, WHERE, can I get something to undelete lost files? BTW, the same disk went bad, and half of my scripts were toast. I suspected a virus, but it made itself known. Viruses usually let you know they're around. Nothing. And Virus Checker didn't find squat. Eventually DiskSalvage recovered a few scripts, including a new Star Trek, but for the most part, a lot was lost when my data disk seemed to just fall apart. ----- Bitnet: aaw151@uriacc.bitnet | Andy Patrzio ARPA: aaw151%uriacc.bitnet@brownvm.brown.edu | Box 705 Ellery Hall Internet: aaw151@uriacc.uri.edu | URI Usenet: simon@sbs.bbs.com | Kingston, RI 02881 ...or...: andypo@idsvax.ids.com | (401) 782-2758 UUCP: ..uunet!rayssd!idsvax!andypo ----- "Hell is -- other people!" - Garcin, "No Exit" -----
sdl@linus.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) (11/29/90)
In article <37503@nigel.ee.udel.edu> AAW151%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (Andy Patrizio) writes: > Buuuuuut, one day I went to call up my movie, all 128 pages (132K), and guess > what? No file. > > Somehow it got killed, and I have nothing to undelete it. Where, WHERE, can I > get something to undelete lost files? I use FixDisk for undeleting lost files, as well as for repairing bad disks. FixDisk version 1.2 is on the (recently released) Fish disk number 403: FixDisk A program to recover as much as possible from a defective disk. It can sometimes recover damaged (unreadable) tracks, check file integrity, check the directory structure, undelete files, copy or show files, fix corrupted directory pointers, etc. Full intuition interface. This is version 1.2, an update to version 1.0 on disk 223. Binary only. Author: Werner Guenther -- Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,necntc,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"
JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu (11/29/90)
Can this utility restore deleted files on a harddrive? If not is there a prg t hat can?
rusty@steelmill.cs.umd.edu (Rusty Haddock) (11/30/90)
In article <90333.043837JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu> JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu writes: >Can this utility restore deleted files on a harddrive? If not is there >a prg that can? If it's not intuitively obvious, DiskSalv can be used to restore a deleted file so long as said file's blocks haven't been overwritten. There might be more you have to worry about but the BEST this is just plain "DON'T WRITE TO THE !#@$%&* DISK" at all. I recovered a file this way just last night. -Rusty- -- Rusty Haddock / CompSci Dept DOMAIN: rusty@mimsy.cs.umd.edu University of Maryland PATH: {uunet,rutgers}!mimsy!rusty If someone points a quad-vectored, hyper-thermic, cosmic blaster at you it's a safe bet that you're about to become toast.
za011@zeus.unomaha.edu (12/09/90)
In article <90333.043837JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu>, <JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu> writes: > Can this utility restore deleted files on a harddrive? If not is there a prg > that can? I think the best program for undeleting is FixDisk. It will undelete files from a hard drive if the partition is not huge. Make sure you use the newest version, because the older ones had problems. I believe the newest version is on NASA, but if you can't find it, I would be more than happy to send it to you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Krueger | BITNET: ZA011@UNOMA1 | //\ MBA student | Internet: ZA011@ZEUS.UNOMAHA.EDU | \X/--\ M I G A -------------------------------------------------------------------------------