Undelete for files on floppy disks?

[Phred]

G'day mates,

Once upon a time there were programs such as PC-Tools and Norton
Utilities that would enable you to easily undelete files (subject to
the usual restrictions). So, when I wanted to simply *test* undelete
on a floppy this evening, for the first time in about 15 years, I
cranked up NU from Symantec SystemWorks 2003 expecting it to work just
fine.

But, of course, Symantec's programmers being such dimwitted
narrow-minded geeks, it's no longer possible to do such a simple job
simply! This "modern" version assumes you would *only* ever want to
undelete files on your C drive as the only partition on your hard
disk, and therefore it can't be done from a working Windows system!
(I expect it will work just fine for files on other drives and/or
partitions, but you don't get the option to try from Windows AFAICS.)

So, anyone care to recommend a small utility to achieve this end?
There was a time when I could probably have used a disk hex editor to
do the job myself, but I've forgotten the necessary characters to
find and change in the filenames in the directory listing. 8-)
Anyway, why bother with that when there's probably something out there
which is simple and free to use?

A bit of googling came up with something called FlopShow 1.2
<http://paradiseprogramming.tripod.com/flopshow.html>
which looks to be both small and free. Has anyone tried it? Or have
other recommendations?

Thanks for your time.


Cheers, Phred.

[Arne Anka]

Post by Phred
Once upon a time there were programs such as PC-Tools and Norton
Utilities that would enable you to easily undelete files
So, anyone care to recommend a small utility to achieve this end?

PC Inspector File Recovery
<http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm>

Drive Rescue
<http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/amd/887/rescue/>

Both can be found on the Pricelessware List:
<http://pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004FILEUTILITIES.htm#Files:Undelete>

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Post by Phred
So, anyone care to recommend a small utility to achieve this end?
There was a time when I could probably have used a disk hex editor to
do the job myself, but I've forgotten the necessary characters to
find and change in the filenames in the directory listing. 8-)
Anyway, why bother with that when there's probably something out there
which is simple and free to use?

Handy Recovery v1.0

http://www.handyrecovery.com/

[BoB]

Post by Phred
G'day mates,
Once upon a time there were programs such as PC-Tools and Norton
Utilities that would enable you to easily undelete files (subject to
the usual restrictions). So, when I wanted to simply *test* undelete
on a floppy this evening, for the first time in about 15 years, I
cranked up NU from Symantec SystemWorks 2003 expecting it to work just
fine.
But, of course, Symantec's programmers being such dimwitted
narrow-minded geeks, it's no longer possible to do such a simple job
simply! This "modern" version assumes you would *only* ever want to
undelete files on your C drive as the only partition on your hard
disk, and therefore it can't be done from a working Windows system!
(I expect it will work just fine for files on other drives and/or
partitions, but you don't get the option to try from Windows AFAICS.)
So, anyone care to recommend a small utility to achieve this end?
There was a time when I could probably have used a disk hex editor to
do the job myself, but I've forgotten the necessary characters to
find and change in the filenames in the directory listing. 8-)
Anyway, why bother with that when there's probably something out there
which is simple and free to use?
A bit of googling came up with something called FlopShow 1.2
<http://paradiseprogramming.tripod.com/flopshow.html>
which looks to be both small and free. Has anyone tried it? Or have
other recommendations?
Thanks for your time.
Cheers, Phred.

FlopShow is excellent and about all there is for freeware.
I pulled two files off a bad floppy on 1-7-03, according
to my records.

BoB

[Mike]

Post by BoB
FlopShow is excellent and about all there is for freeware.
I pulled two files off a bad floppy on 1-7-03, according
to my records.
BoB

PC Inspector File Recovery (freeware) will recover deleted files from a
floppy.I have only used it once ,and it did the job
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Mike.

[BoB]

Post by Phred
G'day mates,
Once upon a time there were programs such as PC-Tools and Norton
Utilities that would enable you to easily undelete files (subject to
the usual restrictions). So, when I wanted to simply *test* undelete
on a floppy this evening, for the first time in about 15 years, I
cranked up NU from Symantec SystemWorks 2003 expecting it to work just
fine.
But, of course, Symantec's programmers being such dimwitted
narrow-minded geeks, it's no longer possible to do such a simple job
simply! This "modern" version assumes you would *only* ever want to
undelete files on your C drive as the only partition on your hard
disk, and therefore it can't be done from a working Windows system!
(I expect it will work just fine for files on other drives and/or
partitions, but you don't get the option to try from Windows AFAICS.)
So, anyone care to recommend a small utility to achieve this end?
There was a time when I could probably have used a disk hex editor to
do the job myself, but I've forgotten the necessary characters to
find and change in the filenames in the directory listing. 8-)
Anyway, why bother with that when there's probably something out there
which is simple and free to use?
A bit of googling came up with something called FlopShow 1.2
<http://paradiseprogramming.tripod.com/flopshow.html>
which looks to be both small and free. Has anyone tried it? Or have
other recommendations?
Thanks for your time.
Cheers, Phred.

Found another one I had tucked away.

Handy Recovery -- Recover deleted files. Easy to use.
http://www.handyrecovery.com.

Did a test recovery of a zip file deleted from a floppy.

BoB

[Brissie]

Recover4All

[Oldus Fartus]

Post by Phred
G'day mates,
Once upon a time there were programs such as PC-Tools and Norton
Utilities that would enable you to easily undelete files (subject to
the usual restrictions). So, when I wanted to simply *test* undelete
on a floppy this evening, for the first time in about 15 years, I
cranked up NU from Symantec SystemWorks 2003 expecting it to work just
fine.
But, of course, Symantec's programmers being such dimwitted
narrow-minded geeks, it's no longer possible to do such a simple job
simply! This "modern" version assumes you would *only* ever want to
undelete files on your C drive as the only partition on your hard
disk, and therefore it can't be done from a working Windows system!
(I expect it will work just fine for files on other drives and/or
partitions, but you don't get the option to try from Windows AFAICS.)
So, anyone care to recommend a small utility to achieve this end?
There was a time when I could probably have used a disk hex editor to
do the job myself, but I've forgotten the necessary characters to
find and change in the filenames in the directory listing. 8-)
Anyway, why bother with that when there's probably something out there
which is simple and free to use?
A bit of googling came up with something called FlopShow 1.2
<http://paradiseprogramming.tripod.com/flopshow.html>
which looks to be both small and free. Has anyone tried it? Or have
other recommendations?
Thanks for your time.
Cheers, Phred.

Assuming FAT, try the old MSDOS 5 to 6.22 UNDELETE command.

[Phred]

Phred wrote concerning the Subject.

[...]

Post by Phred
A bit of googling came up with something called FlopShow 1.2
<http://paradiseprogramming.tripod.com/flopshow.html>
which looks to be both small and free. Has anyone tried it? Or have
other recommendations?

Assuming FAT, try the old MSDOS 5 to 6.22 UNDELETE command.

A solution after my own heart! :-)

(Wonder if it will still work in a DOS window with Windows ME?)


Cheers, Phred.

[Oldus Fartus]

Post by Phred

Phred wrote concerning the Subject.

[...]

Post by Phred
A bit of googling came up with something called FlopShow 1.2
<http://paradiseprogramming.tripod.com/flopshow.html>
which looks to be both small and free. Has anyone tried it? Or have
other recommendations?

Assuming FAT, try the old MSDOS 5 to 6.22 UNDELETE command.

A solution after my own heart! :-)
(Wonder if it will still work in a DOS window with Windows ME?)

I seem to recall a warning not to run the old UNDELETE in a DOS window
when working on hard drives, but I can't see any reason why you could
not use it on a floppy. Perhaps a boot CDROM with a flavour of DOS
later than Version 5 and including UNDELETE. Boot from the CD, and
then run it on the floppy.

(Will try it tomorrow and see whether it works.)

[Donald G. Davis]

Post by Phred

Phred wrote concerning the Subject.

[...]

Post by Phred
A bit of googling came up with something called FlopShow 1.2
<http://paradiseprogramming.tripod.com/flopshow.html>
which looks to be both small and free. Has anyone tried it? Or have
other recommendations?

Assuming FAT, try the old MSDOS 5 to 6.22 UNDELETE command.

A solution after my own heart! :-)
(Wonder if it will still work in a DOS window with Windows ME?)

I don't use WinME, but UNDELETE is still present in DOS 7
(Win95/98). However, it does not work in a DOS window, where direct disk
access is not permitted. You have to exit Windows to the real-mode DOS
prompt and then execute the LOCK command before UNDELETE will do its task.
LOCK will warn you about potential data loss from direct disk access, but
I have never had any such problem, and the possibility would seem to be
particularly remote when undeleting on a FAT12 floppy. I believe that
I've read that one can't boot to real-mode DOS in WinME without special
patches, so I'm not sure how you'd get to a suitable environment for
UNDELETE in WinME.