On 28 Jun 05  17:19:40, mark lewis got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Undelete.

 DC> anything at the lower levels.  IIRC, even booting into DOS 
 DC> gives Win protected file blockings.  

 ml> that highly depends on the DOS being booted into ;) O:)

 ml> i recently used a DOS along with a NTFS file system driver to recover
 ml> several gig of data from a non-bootable (lost the applications hive)
 ml> WinXP system... the process took many hours due to having to load the
 ml> NTFS driver in real mode (traditional style) and not having enough
 ml> memory to load laplink... i had to resort to using an even older file
 ml> transfer utility known as ZIP (not the archiver)... in either case,
 ml> laplink or zip, the data could only be recovered via serial port at a
 ml> max of 115200 bps (that's bits per second, not bytes)... 

sounds like a fun project that is only undertaken when the data is 
very valuable...  



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