re: How do I retrieve deleted files?
Thursday, September 1, 2005 at 5:11 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by evelyn
(1 messages posted)
i want to retreat deleted mesages but don;t know how.i have very important information
there and would like to get it back ,
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002 at 7:31 am, rebootbill wrote:
>Just because you have deleted them from the recycle bin, that doesn't mean that
you
>can't recover them. First try not to use hard drive much, go to dos prompt and use
>microsft's undelete. here's instructions - UNDELETE
>
>Type: External (5.0 and later)
>
>Syntax:
>
>UNDELETE [d:][path][filename] [/DT|/DS|/DOS]
>UNDELETE [/list|/all|/purge[d:]|/status|/load|/U|/S[d:]|/Td:[-entries]]
>
>Purpose: Restores files deleted with the DELETE command.
>
>Discussion
>
>Used to recover files that have been previously erased. The UNDELETE command can
>only recover deleted files if no new files or changes have been made on the disk
>since the deletion. Therefore, if you accidentally delete a file that you want to
>keep, stop what you are doing immediately and use the UNDELETE command to retrieve
>the file.
>
>For more information on using the UNDELETE command, refer to Chapter 2, Using Common
>DOS Commands.
>
>Options
>
>/all - Automatically recovers all of the files you specify.
>
>/list - All available files are listed (but files are not recovered).
>
>/DOS Restricts recovery to those files that meet the file specifications (filespec)
>in the disk directory table.
>
>/DT - Restricts recovery to those files found in the Delete Tracking File.
>
>/DS - Restricts recovery to those files found in the SENTRY directory.
>
>/load - Loads the Undelete memory-resident program into memory using information
>defined in the UNDELETE.INI file.
>
>/unload - Unloads the memory-resident portion of the Undelete program from memory,
>turning off the capability to restore deleted files.
>
>/purged[d] - Deletes the contents of the SENTRY directory.
>
>/status - Displays the type of delete protection in effect for each drive.
>
>/S[d] - Enables the Delete Sentry level of protection and loads the memory-resident
>portion of the UNDELETE program.
>
>/Tdrive[-entries] - Enables the Delete Tracker level of protection and loads the
>memory-resident portion of the UNDELETE program. The optional entries parameter
specifies
>the maximum number of entries in the deletion-tracking file (PCTRACKR.DEL). It must
>be a value in the range 1 through 999 with the default value determined by the type
>of disk being tracked.
>
>Examples
>
>To undelete all recoverable files in the LETTERS directory, enter
>
>undelete \letters\*.* /all
>
>To undelete all recoverable files in the current directory using the delete-tracking
>file, enter
>
>undelete /dt
>
>
>
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