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On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 14:56:42 GMT, ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred)
wrote:

>G'day mates,
>
>Once upon a time there were programs such as PC-Tools and Norton 
>Utilities that would enable you to easily undelete files (subject to 
>the usual restrictions).  So, when I wanted to simply *test* undelete 
>on a floppy this evening, for the first time in about 15 years, I 
>cranked up NU from Symantec SystemWorks 2003 expecting it to work just 
>fine.
>
>But, of course, Symantec's programmers being such dimwitted 
>narrow-minded geeks, it's no longer possible to do such a simple job 
>simply!  This "modern" version assumes you would *only* ever want to 
>undelete files on your C drive as the only partition on your hard 
>disk, and therefore it can't be done from a working Windows system!
>(I expect it will work just fine for files on other drives and/or 
>partitions, but you don't get the option to try from Windows AFAICS.)
>
>So, anyone care to recommend a small utility to achieve this end?  
>There was a time when I could probably have used a disk hex editor to 
>do the job myself, but I've  forgotten the necessary characters to 
>find and change in the filenames in the directory listing. 8-)  
>Anyway, why bother with that when there's probably something out there 
>which is simple and free to use?
>
>A bit of googling came up with something called FlopShow 1.2
><http://paradiseprogramming.tripod.com/flopshow.html>
>which looks to be both small and free.  Has anyone tried it?  Or have 
>other recommendations?
>
>Thanks for your time.
>
>Cheers, Phred.

FlopShow is excellent and about all there is for freeware.
I pulled two files off a bad floppy on 1-7-03, according 
to my records.

BoB