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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.
> 

Assuming FAT, try the old MSDOS 5 to 6.22 UNDELETE command.

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