ooooooh bugger - Accidental deletition

[Matthew Price]

I know I'm barking up an empty tree here, but last night I deleted my entire
Development Folder from my hard drive and didnt notice until this afternoon.
it had about 5 months of source code in there. Is there ANY possible way of
recovering some of that data?
I used to have LookSystems Recovery Suite but lost it years ago.

A3000 ROS3 40MB RISC Dev. HD

[Paul Vigay]

If you know some unique text strings that might be contained within your
data, you can use my Disc Commander application to search the surface of
the disc for the physical data, then using the markers, mark the beginning
and ending of what you think your files are, then save marked block to
directly read data off the disc and save as a new file.

One thing to remember though is NOT to WRITE anything to the disc, as the
data will still be intact, but is likely to be overwritten as soon as you
save any future data. Thus any recovery would need to be saved on another
disc or floppy.

Email me you want more info, or download Disc Commander from
http://www.vigay.com/riscos/apps/commander.html

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The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

[Matthew Price]

thanks Paul, tried it didnt work. I wrote a few files before I got your
post.
Luckily programming is just a minor hobby now, maybe 3hrs a week now
compared to about 30-40 in 94-98.
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[Scott Boham]

Matthew Price <sgch...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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ouch!

as paul said, once you start writing files again, you're likely to overwrite
any trace of your files on the disc.

anyway, you surely just install from your last backup ;-)

you'll know for next time!

good luck

scott