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

Steve Grasso steveg at calm.wa.gov.au
Wed Aug 8 10:39:51 WST 2001


On Wednesday 08 August 2001 10:21, Beau Kuiper wrote:
> 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
>

Is Win95a FAT16? If so, that's where and how I got it to work.
Appologies for the dirty bone.......

My other suggestions should be OK, even if they're a bit tedious, since I've 
used them successfully myself in the past.

Steve

> 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



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