[luau] HELP please, need "undelete" / data recovery utility for FAT32 (Win 98)

[Dean Fujioka]

Symantec used to have a norton utilities program on the bootable dos 
diskettes that would undelete, unformat, etc. it does cost a few $$ 
though , and most likely will *not* restore your entire file system, but 
if you know what you are looking for to recover, it may be an option.

dean


Robert Green wrote:

>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  
>
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