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Norton Utilities 5.01 Error Messages (Users)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 13.08.2012, 08:26

> Hi! I'm trying to resurrect an old MS-DOS 6.21 system I used to run years
> ago on a Toshiba 1910 CS laptop.
>
> I've made considerable progress since my last post over there, and now have
> my old system more or less up and running on a hand-me-down Toshiba
> Satellite 2545XCDT which I now use every day as my notepad.
>
> Yesterday I tried to use the Unerase utility in Norton Utilities 5.01 to
> check for remnants of deleted files on the hard drive, but got this
> message: "Error reading directory."
>
> I'm more than a little rusty at just running MS-DOS for my day-to-day
> note-taking, so troubleshooting this discrepancy is going to present quite
> a challenge to me.
This seems like a strange problem. I mean, deleted files aren't usually a reliable way to store things. ;-) So trying to get them back is difficult, if not impossible, esp. the common way things are handled (IIRC ... 0xE5 for first char in name with any space freed for later overwriting later).

If you want an undelete, try the one from FreeDOS (and DOSFSCK [386+, a la ScanDisk] if you want to fix / recover borked files and clusters).

Actually, IIRC, old 16-bit DOS Navigator 1.51 had an undelete built in (though I'm just mentioning it for completeness).

Otherwise, I don't see the urgency as all of that data is deleted anyways, hence presumably not very important. (But I could be wrong ....)

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