Hmm, I remember the few times I've rewritten my FAT and MBR with a hex-editor..
those were the days... *laugh*

Ken wrote:
> 
> 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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