Hi Folks, I am trying to fix a system for a friend. It is (was) a windows 98 machine, and his ex-employee either dragged the whole drive into the trash can, or did a recursive delete from the command line -- I don't know which one it was.
When you start the machine, it will come up to the C:\ prompt, and the directory listing shows COMMAND.COM and a couple of other hidden/archive/read-only files. I don't have the directory printout since we didn't have any internet connection at his shop (that was one of the things the machine was used for). He doesn't know where the original restore CD is, and I don't think they had any backup (DOH!). He was out of town when the machine was sabotaged. Anyhow, to make a long story short, I am looking for a CLI "undelete" type program that will work with win 98 (I think that's a FAT 32 file system?), preferably an open-source or free util. Does the Dos 5.x undelete util work for win 98? since I'm doing this as a favor and I don't want to spend big money on this. I don't mind my time, but I can't shell out hundreds on dedicated data recovery software for this. I'm hoping it will be an easy fix (it doesn't look like the culprits were terribly smart about how it was done, and I am wondering if a simple undelete type program will work. Short of that, I can try restoring files to a second drive and then seeing if I can put the peices back on. Any help would be greatly appreciated -- thanks in advance, folks! Aloha, Rob __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com
