[plug] [ot] Fat32 undelete from dos mode ?

[Beau Kuiper]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Steve Grasso wrote:

> Mike,
>
> 1.  I think you'll find UNDELETE.EXE from DOS 6.22 will work fine on a FAT32
> (Win95a and Win95b, not Win98) disk, although you'll have to lock the disk
> first ie. type lock at the prompt

no, THIS WON'T WORK!!!. an undelete utility for fat16 will not work for a
fat32 partition (no matter which god you pray to). Of course, it could be
fun watching someone screw over their filesystem will the undelete.exe
utility :-)

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

>
> 2. You may get some joy booting from a Linux bootdisk -- eg. Toms Root Boot
> http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html -- and using something like the following on
> key words:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda | strings | grep -A 5 -B 5 associate's_name(s)_here
>
> NOTE: I can't remember if Tomsrtbt has support for disks, I know LOAF
> doesn't. If it doesn't, I have a rebuilt RamFloppy disk image which I put
> together specifically for repairing/recovering data from IDE disks which I'll
> email you if you want.
>
> 3.  Pull the disk out of the computer, install it in a computer running Linux
> on another disk, and use lde -- http://lde.sourceforge.net/ -- to
> progressively dump raw portions of the disk's partition(s) to file on the
> Linux disk, grepping through the recovered goop for usefull data.
>
> Use something like:
> lde -D startblock -N how_many_blocks+1 /dev/hdb1 > /some_path_to_the/outfile
>
> Then:
> strings /some_path_to_the/outfile | grep -A 5 -B 5 some_key_word_here
> or
> strings /some_path_to_the/outfile | more
>
> HTH
> Steve
>
> On Wednesday 08 August 2001 07:47, Mike wrote:
> > Hi chaps,
> >
> > Sorry for the off topic, I'm in a quandry to help a friend
> > recover his mailboxes and nicknames so he can email associates
> > before he travels o/seas.
> >
> > Have been looking for recover routine that doesn't need to be
> > installed (ie not upset clusters) on his drive, so any equivalent
> > to UNDELETE.EXE that can work on FAT32 and fit on a floppy
> > would be ideal, searches haven't found anything :(
>
>