[Wylug-help] File recovery

don don at leedsweb.dyndns.org
Tue Jul 6 01:03:27 BST 2004


Have you tried dosfsck. I think it has a file undelete facility.
But I would make a copy of the disk before I used it.

Don Magee


Anne Wilson wrote:

>Has anyone any experience of using either Autopsy or Fatback?  After a cpu fan
>failure I find that data on two vfat partitions has all been apparently lost,
>but Autopsy shows them as being there but deleted.  It is frustrating to be
>able to see them and not know how to recover them.  If you use the Export
>facility it seems to write .raw files, and I don't know how to get them to be
>readable by the original apps.  The main problems are spreadsheets (.xls)
>and .jpg files.
>
>I have joined the mailing list, but whether it is normally active or not, any
>list that depends heavily on USA is not going to be very helpful right
>now ;-)
>
>Anne
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