Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file?

2013-11-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 9:28 AM, José Antonio jmartinez_m...@yahoo.es wrote: 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

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.

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

Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file?

2013-11-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Karen, I xcopied the contents of my c drive to my e, which is a problem for one major file. if I want to recover this file as it was before the xcopy process, is there anything I can do? Depends. If you deleted a file, you can try to undelete it. In MS DOS, undelete starts at a

Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file?

2013-11-09 Thread Karen Lewellen
let me simplify this some. I just did this about three hours ago. I have done nothing to the drive where the file was, in an effort of being very very sure it can be recovered. granted dos 7.1 does not have undilute. dos 6.22 did, and I still have that on a different drive. I am not running

Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file?

2013-11-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Karen, let me simplify this some. I just did this about three hours ago. I have done nothing to the drive where the file was, in an effort of being very very sure it can be recovered. As mentioned, the 2002 version of FreeDOS undelete avoids to write the drive FROM which you extract