DOS ain't dead

Accidentaly I found a program for data recovery which works in Windowsm Linux and DOS: it is DMDE
Sure, some features are in TestDisk and in Photorec however the DMDE has also some nice unique features - mainly hard disk imaging and recovering from image.

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DOS-u-akbar!

I tried DMDE last year but didn't notice DOS version. I used it for restoring from SD card so DOS version would be useless for me anyway...

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

> I tried DMDE last year but didn't notice DOS version. I used it for
> restoring from SD card so DOS version would be useless for me anyway...

DOS version of DMDE would be far from useless, since it apparently can read and restore from NTFS filesystem, just as Testdisk. It is always good to have more DOS recovery utilities at hand. I had never heard of DMDE before, so thanks to Laaca for letting us know about it. I guess you would need SD card driver to read from SD cards directly, but does DMDE not have built-in such capability?

In my DOS computer I have a IDE to SD card adapter so in my case is no driver needed. It is a useful thing although more expensive that more common IDE/CF card adapters.

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DOS-u-akbar!

Thanks. I tried it and its useful to copy files to an NTFS partiton with long filenames, as Paragon Software's NTFS driver is buggy whet it comes to LFN support (it bypasses the system's LFN driver and works well when copying from the NTFS volume, but the other way around, it always writes 8.3 first which must be renamed in a separate step to the desired long name. This tool writes the correct filename immediately). I suppose it might also be useful if I need to repair NTFS partitions (which I hope I won't XD), but I just found something I can use it very often.

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DOS isn't about why. It's about why not.

I meant it was useless for my specific task at that time which was restoring an accidentally deleted video file from SD card. As I don't have any special SD-IDE adapter (neither I don't have IDE now) I just used my cheap USB card reader as usually and so I had to use Windows. I tried about 20 various restoration programs but video file was fragmented and any program was not able to restore more than a few seconds of video. Then I use recover_mp4 and manual hard work in hexa editor to restore fragments and finally get almost 100% of original video.
So I don't think DMDE would be generally useless. I just want to know if it has some significant advantage/unique feature that other tools like testdisk doesn't have (DOS version of testdisk can't open image file? How DMDE can handle large image files on FAT32 - splitting in multiple files?).

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

> Accidentaly I found a program for data recovery which works in Windowsm
> Linux and DOS: it is DMDE
> Sure, some features are in
> TestDisk and in
> Photorec however the
> DMDE has also some nice unique features - mainly hard disk imaging and
> recovering from image.

Thanks Laaca, that's a nice addition to our utilities :)

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