langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) (04/27/88)
A pretty general undelete program is available on the archives at
j.cc.purdue.edu. By anonymous ftp, log in as "ftp" and give your username as a
password. Then cd to news/comp/binaries/amiga/volume4 and get
undelete.sh.1of2.Z and undelete.sh.2of2.Z. Unlike DiskDoctor and Disksalv,
undelete asks for a single file name instead of automatically recovering every
deleted file on the disk. If you haven't already overwritten the disk space
where your deleted files exist, you can pick them back up one by one. Undelete
puts the recovered file into your choice of RAM:, DF1:, VD0:, or that other
RRD. (Actually, the shar has a number of different versions, each with the a
different volume name hardwired into it. You can modify the hardwired device
name with NewZap or some other disk editor.)
Unfortunately, undelete asks you to put the "floppy" into DF0: before scanning
the disk. Although I make no guarantees, it appears that by using NewZap or
another disk editor and modifying undelete so that every reference to the
string "DF0:" is replaced by "DH0:", you should be able to recover the file.
You'll be prompted to put the disk into drive DH0:, then to press return. As
long as DH0: is already the hard drive with your deleted file on it, just
pressing return should do it.
DISCLAIMER: I don't have a hard drive, so I cannot test this. If anyone (such
as, say, the author of undelete) knows of a reason why this would cause any
problems, speak now. And anyway, no matter what you do, you should do a backup
first. You've been meaning to back up your hard disk for a while now, anyway,
haven't you? :-)
Be seeing you...
Lang Zerner langz@athena.mit.edu ihnp4!mit-eddie!athena.mit.edu!langz
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