Hi Linda,

 MR> About the only drawback to HPFS is not being able to reliably recover
 MR> deleted files. You learn quickly to make backups before doing  MR>
anything destructive.

 LP> OH!  No one said anything about that!  No 3rd party undeletes?

Dont panic! 

Yes, there are 3rd party "UNDELETE" utilities for HPFS if you really need
them, however undeleting a file on HPFS is a lot more complicated than on FAT, 
essentially it means the ENTIRE partition must be searched for each file you
wish to recover. 

A BETTER way to handle this type of problem is to turn on the OS/2 DELDIR
option in CONFIG.SYS (you can find it in the online HELP). This enables an
"DELETE DIRECTORY" archiving function for deleted files on whatever partition
you want it to work and allows you to recover files using native OS/2
commmands, no 3rd party apps required. Be warned that while this form of
recovery is very quick, there can be a slight performance impact when files
are "deleted" on some volumes, especially drives that have a lot of activity
on them.

Cheers..........pk.


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