I really wish a third party option.
wikepedia is wrong about norton utilities..but it can be wrong in general
often. had no
idea it ever shipped
with ms dos. I bought my copy new from the company.
I have never been so thankful that I house keep like this in my entire
life. there are two
Hi Karen,
what I meant is that Microsoft bought a version of
DEFRAG and UNDELETE from Norton, so they are from
older versions of Norton Utilities. There was no
complete Norton Utilities included with MS DOS...
What do you mean by there are two files now? Is
the partition with the overwritten
I have no idea why my partitions would be fat 16.my machines are
Pentium III, and I have ran the augmented edition of dos 7.1 on them since
at least 2008
what I mean is that there are two different files now, in the same
directory, that I wish to restore. I honestly cannot remember the
Why are you writing me privately for a list discussion?
Not sure why these would be plain text either, they are wordperfect 6.0,
actually, or why it impacts my use of
Norton utilities 8.0 edition of unerace.
let's focus on what I am asking, since we may get to the goal this way.
plain text
Well let me state publicly again that private communications are unwelcome
unless I have granted you permission. Told you that before, then simply
kept ignoring your private efforts...feel sure you will not make that
mistake again.
I have just posted a comparative question at the wp for dos
1º. Undelete command.
2º. Boot with a Linux Live CD (like knoppix), some distros include TestDisk and
PhotoRec. It is very important that the restored files will be placed in an
alternative storage, not in the original, media. If files have not been
overwritten (i think DOS mark first name
Dear Mr. Lewellen,
Well let me state publicly again that private communications are unwelcome
unless I have granted you permission. Told you that before, then simply
kept ignoring your private efforts...feel sure you will not make that
mistake again.
you are wasting our valuable time.
i have a dell optiplex gx280.
first i found it doesn't support 2 floppys, only 1. fine.
now, however, 1.44 mb diskettes format fine with ms-dos 6.22,
but freedos trying to format them says:
# Boot sector unreadable, disk not yet formatted
Treating int 13.8 drive type 0x0 as 1440k
Using drive
Hi Karen,
please let me clarify: My ignored question was regarding
the sizes of the damaged files and the files that overwrote
them and the file format of those files. Of course having
important files almost lost causes a lot of stress, but
asking off-list was not meant to waste your private