> From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:00:11 -0800 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: OT - Erased File Recovery > > On or near 4/1/02 8:00 AM, Jim Colgate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: >> Question: Does anybody know of a utility program on the Macintosh that will >> un-erase or recover data from a PC formatted Zip disk? I tried Data Rescue, >> my favorite, but no go. >> > You probably would need to run Norton Utilities FOR WINDOWS, the Unerase > function, on a PC that had a Zip drive. Nothing I know of on the Mac will > "undelete" files from a PC-formatted disk.
Well I tried that and learned again to really hate software that thinks it is smarter than the user. I had access to a PC with Windows NT and Norton Utilities 2001. It seems that Symantec decided that the only things that their unerase functions should work for are those that have gone through the windows trash can or were protected by Norton's delete guard. I remember the old days when Norton Utilities was a low level utility that could be used or abused when nothing else worked. I guess no more. I did find a product from dtidata.com called fast-file-recovery that seemed to find all the deleted data, but the demo version would only save files less than 15k bytes (not many like that these days) and the full version costs $200. I think some of the file recovery services are even cheaper than that -- and of course I will only need to do it this one time. <grin> We learn something new every day. Jim -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
