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Started by williams
Tue, 05 Mar 1991 21:35
Rainbow DOS recovery--HELP!
Author: williams
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 21:35
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 21:35
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I have a Rainbow with a 10 Meg hard disc and 2 floppy drives. I am running DOS 2.1. I erased my xywrite directory by typing "del *.* fon" instead of "del *.fon". (a hard lesson well learned) so, Is there any recovery leads any one can help me with -- I called DEC, DECUS, asked our local mavens, and a generous gentleman in Washington DC who suggested dumping everything from the hard drive to floppies-- Is there a version of Norton for this machine? I tried bouncing Norton UD 4.0 off the VAX to the Rainbow drive B: It didn't work. It's about 900,000 K in about 180 files. Thanks David Williams williams@hulaw1.bitnet williams@hulaw1.harvard.edu +1 617 646-7442
Re: Rainbow DOS recovery--HELP!
Author: Bruce Wright
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1991 03:20
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1991 03:20
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In article <1991Mar5.163538.213@hulaw1.harvard.edu>, williams@hulaw1.harvard.edu writes: > I have a Rainbow with a 10 Meg hard disc and 2 floppy > drives. I am running DOS 2.1. I erased my xywrite > directory by typing "del *.* fon" instead of "del *.fon". > (a hard lesson well learned) so, > Is there any recovery leads any one can help me with -- > I called DEC, DECUS, asked our local mavens, and > a generous gentleman in Washington DC who suggested dumping > everything from the hard drive to floppies-- > Is there a version of Norton for this machine? > I tried bouncing Norton UD 4.0 off the VAX to the Rainbow > drive B: It didn't work. There are several undelete programs for the Rainbow. But I usually use Norton's NU v 4.0 - if you use it with the /D1 or /D2 switch, it will go to the IBM-PC BIOS or to ANSI.SYS, respectively. If you have Code Blue or something similar, this should be all that's needed; if you use /D2 even that shouldn't be necessary. For some reason Norton v4.5 seems to have troubles on the Rainbow - I've never tried to track down why since 4.0 works just fine. If you still have trouble, email me and I may be able to mail you back a copy of one or another of the undelete programs ... Bruce C. Wright
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