re: Hard Drive
Thursday, February 13, 2003 at 2:44 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Oh_dear
(1415 messages posted)
I had forgotten the Norton Utilities possibility - so long since I used them. I
just checked my Norton SysWorks 2001 CD. unformat is there - has to run in a straight
DOS environment so you have to boot from a startup floppy or restart to DOS.
On Thursday, February 13, 2003 at 2:07 pm, Bob Harris wrote:
>First, do NOT write to the disk.
>
>Depending on exactly how he did the format it may be possible to do an UN-format.
> By that I mean if he did a quick format, recovery maybe easy and not too expensive.
> If he did a long format (also called a thorough format) recovery may be impossible
>without sending the drive to special forensic services (expensive).
>
>For Win98, try Norton Utilities version 2001 or even 2000. (Versions 2002 and
2003
>are aimed at XP, although they may still do unformatting under 98. they do not
unforamt
>under XP.) Do NOT install on the hard drive. Instead, run from the CDROM. There
>is both UNDELETE for single files (skip that) and UNFORMAT (do that). the boxed-set
>Norton Utilities come with a good manual describing several disaster scenerios and
>how to fix them.
>
>If you do get Norton, after the unformat, think about installing it. It has some
>other good features.
>
>Note that there are other unformat utilities. A web-search on UNFORMAT should lead
>you to them.
>
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