[Novalug] Re: FAT recovery (OT)

[rogerb at bronord.com]

Symnatec / Norton utilities will "repair" a corrupted file allocation table
(FAT). If I recall correctly, there is a backup of the FAT stored on disk.

"Undelet:" undelete finds those files that have been "deleted" and restores
them. In older Win OSes, the filename had a question mark placed in the
filename, changing it from foo.doc to something like fo?.doc. Undelete only
worked if the file had not been overwritten by subsequent "reclamation" of
disk space when new data was written to space that was made available by a
delete.

I've not seen Norton's disk editor in recent releases of Norton Utilities but
have used it in the past to recover some parts of long files that were deleted
but it's use depended on knowing some of the content of a file one wished to
recover. You could also browse a disk - not a very nice idea in the age of
multi-GB media.
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Roger W. Broseus
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