Retrieving deleted folder

pls help

[operafan]

I've browse through few programs that does the trick but I read somewhere & cant find it of how to do it via dos.
Can someone pls tell me how, I dont want to buy the software just to recover 1 particular folder which contains alot of important stuff

[2oddSox]

Hi operafan,

DOS has an 'undelete' command, but it's an external command meaning it doesn't reside in 'command.com' - it's only available with some incarnations of DOS. If you have it on your machine you can give it a try.

If you want to recover all files in say the TEMP directory, you'd type:

undelete \temp\*.* /all

If you want to recover a specific file you'd type:

undelete \temp\file.txt

Have a good look around on the net for the 'undelete dos command' before trying it, as there are many switches you can use to help with the task. Of course, you'll be doing all of this on another machine, and not the one you've lost the files on. Whatever else you do, do not use that machine as the more you do, the less likely you'll be able to recover the files. Even posting messages to WW with that machine won't help your cause.

(also from memory, I seem to recall some problem with UNDELETE and FAT32 (but can't remember off the top of my head), so you may want to check that out if you have a FAT32 drive)

Good luck,

2odd...