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

[Beau Kuiper]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Steve Grasso wrote:

>
> 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

Win95a only understands FAT16, Win95b (and newer) understands FAT16 and
FAT32

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

>
> > 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
>
>