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Date: 31 Jul 2004 10:17:33 GMT
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Subject: Re: corrupted file
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>> in old days there was "undelete".
>> is this no longer possible/recommended ?
>
>Did you try to invoke it on Windows?
>


hmm,  .. searching google for "undelete under windows"  revealed :


 >Microsoft goes so far as to state that it is "not  >possible to perform an
undelete under  >Windows NT on any of the supported file  >systems." (See
Microsoft Knowledge Base  >article Q100108 for more information.) The  >process
is indeed difficult, but not  >impossible. 
from:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,102478,00.asp

here is a free undelete utility for Windows,
only for files <64K , 2MB :
http://www.active-undelete.com/download.htm



>Anyway, I assumed that the file was not deleted, but somehow
>overwritten or its disk space became corrupted.
>

even then undelete might work at least
for parts of the program.  
When scandisk can do it
then other programs should also be able to.
Scandisk searches the whole HD
AFAIR, which can take hours.
Yes, I had to do it too :-(, but that's some
years ago


Guenter.