Re: Trashed partition

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From: Nix
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 00:00

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Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes:

> 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:
> >>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?

If you run it without parameters, it without prompting turns the entire
disk into a bunch of poorly-named files in the root directory, one per
file *or directory*. It stops when the root fills up, when you are
supposed to deal with that load of files and {run CHKDSK|run RECOVER
again|restore from backups|panic}.

-- 
Root beer --- the drink of the BOFH.

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