On Jul 15, 1996 at 19:35, Keith Richardson of 3:711/934.6 wrote:

 KR> hid system back. it does show, though that you can get quite a lot back
 KR> from any system if you have the motivation.

Depends - I trashed the partition table and was able to recover the system,
but the key here was that the FAT was not damaged/altered at all;  that's
just the problem with the FAT file system, it's a single-point-of-failure. 
You were just lucky that the "damage" followed some form of
pattern.

 KR> i do have to admit however that microsoft did quite a good job when they
 KR> designed hpfs (:

Full marks to Gordon Letwin, arrogant prick that he is.

    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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