On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 00:43, Mike Lake wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:39:54PM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: *snip* > > Not a pleasant way to learn a lesson, but they've all stayed learnt. I > > now back up, for a start. :-) > > Great we have some experts here :-)
More of an expert at destroying than recovering, but anyway... > I have a friend who has just formatted his IBM format Windows floppy > with important info on it. There are $ packages he could use but he is a > uni student. Under Linux I could mount the fd ro but is there another > FAT table on Windows floppies can I tell the mount command to use? > I am hoping that Linux utils might be able to get his files back, not > with all their correct names, but at least salvage them as AFAIK the > format command does not actually write all over the disk? IIR, format just writes a new FAT table. All the data stays where it is. DOS used to have an unformat command, which I used once or twice with some success. Don't know if it still exists. -- Peter Hardy Engineer Bulletproof Networks ph: +61 (0) 2 9328 4114 fax: +61 (0) 2 9328 4115 mob: +61 (0) 411 166 029 http://www.bulletproof.net.au This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be legally privileged. Only the intended recipient may access or use it and no confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by mistaken transmission. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy or disclose this email's contents to any person and you must delete it and notify us immediately. Bulletproof Networks uses virus scanning software but excludes all liability for viruses or similar in any attachment as well as for any error or incompleteness in the contents of this e-mail. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
