musicforlife
Experienced Member
Damn it, I can't find any free programs to do file recovery under 286 dos computer. At best free programs require 386 or better. The computer is using DOS 3.30. Please help.
Have you tried the FreeDOS undelete? It was supposed to have been compiled for the 8086.
I remember there being a number of undelete utilities provided in programming magazines but I can't locate any download site except for the PC Magazine implementation designed for DOS 2. Most of these are very simple so might not yield the results you want.
Norton Utilities 4.5 is one of the better tool sets that can run on DOS 3.3 and will run on a 286. If it can't recover the data, either through undeletion or direct reading of sectors, very little else available for DOS will.
Could you describe the problem you are having in more detail? It may be that the solutions suggested may not be useful due to a misunderstanding.
If you're using NU 4.5 follow this procedure to try to recover the deleted files:
1) run UD (UnRemove Directory) to recover the deleted directory (by default it tries to recover all deleted directories)
2) CD to the recovered directory in step 1
3) QU (Quick Unerase) to recover the deleted files (by default it tries to recover all deleted files)
Very important: avoid to write anything to disk until you recover the files.
Hope this helps.