Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file?

2013-11-10 Thread Karen Lewellen
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

Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file?

2013-11-10 Thread Eric Auer
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

Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file?

2013-11-10 Thread Karen Lewellen
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

Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file? (fwd)

2013-11-10 Thread Karen Lewellen
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

Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file? (fwd)

2013-11-10 Thread Karen 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. I have just posted a comparative question at the wp for dos

Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file?

2013-11-10 Thread José Antonio
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

Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file? (fwd)

2013-11-10 Thread Tom Ehlert
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.

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-11-10 Thread Mark Brown
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

Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file? (fwd)

2013-11-10 Thread Eric Auer
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