Unable to undelete

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From: Michael Benedik
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:12

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We accidently deleted the contents of a subdirectory on the hard disk
of an AT clone. I immediately realized what happened and ran UNDELETE from
PC-tools 7.1 (system is running ms-dos 3.3, single partition 20MB hard drive).
There was no file activity after the delete and before I ran Undelete.
(Note that I had not run MIRROR and did not have file tracking on). So
undelete saw all the files (about 50) and said we had GOOD chance to recover
them all. As I went through the files one by one and typed in the first 
character and undeleted the file, every so often the next file then 
changed from GOOD to BAD probability of being undeleted and pc-tools
could no longer undelete it. It is as if when PC-tools was working it
overwrite areas of the disk so that it ruined the chance of undeleting
subsequent files. Can anyone explain what happened or what I did wrong.
I have been undeleting files for years using many programs and this is 
the first time I have ever seen this. I don't care about those
files, but I want to make sure it never happens again.


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	 Michael Benedik
	 Department of Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences
	 University of Houston
	 INTERNET: Benedik@UH.EDU	BITNET: Benedik@UHOU

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