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Article #421Re: Trashed partition
From: Nick Leverton
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 00:00
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 00:00
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In article <Gmg6BBAeVFH5EwX6@btinternet.com>, Tom Bird <tombird@btinternet.com> wrote: >In article <slrn8hobjg.bn9.newsfrom@lurch.pellatt.co.uk>, Mike Pellatt ><newsfrom@news.pellatt.co.uk> writes >>On 12 May 2000 02:42:02 GMT, Nick Leverton >><nick@leverton.org> wrote: >>>In article <Zs1PASAZRuG5EwsB@btinternet.com>, >>>Tom Bird <tombird@btinternet.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>Windoze format is not the most destructive tool M$ have supplied (I >>>>believe that honour goes to "setup.exe" on the win95 CD), I have >>> >>>I think that "recover.exe" in MS-DOS 3 till 6 has a pretty good claim :) >> >><shudder> I'd forgotten all about that. Thanks for reminding >>me. Err, not. > >That's the one that splits a directory into little files isn't it? Not quite : it renames every single file and directory on the disk as something like FILE0001, FILE0002, et cetera. They're all still there, just not very retrievably named ... Nick
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac57,fdb9bc7671f0b5e0 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac57,public From: nick@leverton.org (Nick Leverton) Subject: Re: Trashed partition Date: 2000/05/12 Message-ID: <8fi2r2$g0h$1@warren.leverton.org> X-Deja-AN: 622868781 References: <vc39f8.kc.ln@faichney.demon.co.uk> <8ffr1q$hi5$1@warren.leverton.org> <slrn8hobjg.bn9.newsfrom@lurch.pellatt.co.uk> <Gmg6BBAeVFH5EwX6@btinternet.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net X-Trace: news7.svr.pol.co.uk 958206192 2583 62.137.49.223 (13 May 2000 08:23:12 GMT) Organization: The Warren NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 May 2000 08:23:12 GMT Newsgroups: demon.tech.unix Originator: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)