Using Kato's Restoration.exe FAT32 Undelete File

[this is edited version of post in thread in non-MS Company's newsgroups.
Posted in XP group cuz it's busy :-) ]

Quick background:

Computer is Win Me, FAT32 one HD, no partitions.

yesterday, cleaning out files. Today, two low level folders are gone. It's
possible they were wiped out by crashes, since recently, I have to restart
the computer multiple times. I haven't found a backup system that works
with CDs and overly long names, without hours of manual hunting and editing.
So most recent backups are incomplete, and didn't include one of these low
level folders (grrr)
to avoid overwriting clusters on the "sick" computer, I'm using this other
computer (on the net now) for any purpose but Restoration.
.

Restoration.exe:

1 I'm choosing all of the options. For instance, a first one cannot use "*"
wildcard, so I used just the period "."

However I see more than 50k files, so I'll need some mass ignore or delete
scheme.

2 Kato's Read Me has a 2nd section of instructions. "All clusters scan (FAT
partition)"
Is this section referring to the step in the instructions above, "if you
want to scan vacant clusters, if you couldn't find your target file, please
select yes. (FAT partition)" ?????

3 to avoid concurrent over writing, should I use CTRL+Alt+Del to kill
resident apps, such as win's Restore? Seems I should. But, very few apps can
be killed in ctrl+alt+del :(
hidserv, rundll, systray. AntiVirus ware. That's about it.


4 While doing tedious manual sifting, can I copy to a networked drive? (I
may discover the answer to this soon, when Restoration.exe finishes its
sweep)
TIA, and T later

MsOsWin
Sat Jul 31 18:13:56 CDT 2004

Restoration's list shows, jpg, zip, txt, tif, url, 'folder' and other
formats, but no doc files. These listed are old files. They haven't been in
their listed folders for a while. These found files seem to be deletions
from Recycle Bin after recent my Zip and Burn activities. I conclude that
the (more recently) lost low-level folders are gone. Crash and chew chew
chew :(

Jeff
Sat Jul 31 18:28:49 CDT 2004

If you want to recover these files do not use the system at all. Install the
drive as a slave drive in another machine and do the recovery from that
machine. This also solves the problem of where to copy recovered files to.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
<MsOsWin@nonooo.com> wrote in message
news:Oj4ak90dEHA.2544@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> [this is edited version of post in thread in non-MS Company's newsgroups.
> Posted in XP group cuz it's busy :-) ]
>
> Quick background:
>
> Computer is Win Me, FAT32 one HD, no partitions.
>
> yesterday, cleaning out files. Today, two low level folders are gone. It's
> possible they were wiped out by crashes, since recently, I have to restart
> the computer multiple times. I haven't found a backup system that works
> with CDs and overly long names, without hours of manual hunting and
> editing.
> So most recent backups are incomplete, and didn't include one of these low
> level folders (grrr)
> to avoid overwriting clusters on the "sick" computer, I'm using this other
> computer (on the net now) for any purpose but Restoration.
> .
>
> Restoration.exe:
>
> 1 I'm choosing all of the options. For instance, a first one cannot use
> "*"
> wildcard, so I used just the period "."
>
> However I see more than 50k files, so I'll need some mass ignore or delete
> scheme.
>
> 2 Kato's Read Me has a 2nd section of instructions. "All clusters scan
> (FAT
> partition)"
> Is this section referring to the step in the instructions above, "if you
> want to scan vacant clusters, if you couldn't find your target file,
> please
> select yes. (FAT partition)" ?????
>
> 3 to avoid concurrent over writing, should I use CTRL+Alt+Del to kill
> resident apps, such as win's Restore? Seems I should. But, very few apps
> can
> be killed in ctrl+alt+del :(
> hidserv, rundll, systray. AntiVirus ware. That's about it.
>
>
> 4 While doing tedious manual sifting, can I copy to a networked drive? (I
> may discover the answer to this soon, when Restoration.exe finishes its
> sweep)
> TIA, and T later
>
>

MsOsWin
Sat Jul 31 18:31:58 CDT 2004


"Jeff Richards" <JRichards@msn.com.au> wrote in message
news:Ohy4gY1dEHA.3612@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> If you want to recover these files do not use the system at all. Install
the
> drive as a slave drive in another machine and do the recovery from that
> machine. This also solves the problem of where to copy recovered files to.
> --
> Jeff Richards
> MS MVP (DTS)

Perfect. I was thinking that I didn't want to shutdown and restart to be
able to put another drive in the "SICK" computer. Putting the "sick" drive
into another computer is much better.
Thanks