Ph Gibone wrote:
> 
> >Could you be more specific (simplistic)? Windoze has nuked my files in this
> >manner before; what tools would you use to read the contents of individual
> >blocks?
> >
> >Margus
> 
> There exists some commercial tools for that (Norton sells one certainly),
> but you can use DEBUG which is a DOS command that you find on your disk : it
> is not an easy one (its just like writing assembly code) and you have to
> know the adress of your file first. Honestly I haven't done this since years
> (I used PCTOOLS at that time)
> 
> Philippe

  I used to use Norton utilities for this myself but that was when HD's
were only 10 - 20 megs and looking at the entire contents of the drive
were easy to visualy search through. At 1 gig or more that possibility has
long since passed away as an option. I don't have that much time on my
hands.

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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