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- RECOVER
-
- RECOVER is an external command used to recover file(s) from a damaged diskette
- or disk. You know a file needs recovering when DOS tells you that a read or
- write error occurred accessing the file. It is much easier to use a separately
- purchased program to recover files from a hard disk. Its use on hard disks is
- not recommended. (See the WARNING below.)
-
- RECOVER [d:][pathname]filename[.ext]
- or
- RECOVER d:
-
- [d:][pathname]filename[.ext] will recover a single file. RECOVER reads the
- specified file, skipping any portions that are unreadable. It will recover
- the readable portion of the file, and lock out the rest from future use.
-
- d: will recover an entire disk. The root directory will be rebuilt, with all
- files renamed to FILEnnnn.REC (where nnnn is a four digit number starting with
- 0000). All recovered files (including those in subdirectories) will be placed
- in the root directory. RECOVER will also remove the label from the disk. Large
- files may be broken up into several separate FILEnnnn.REC files.
-
- RECOVER won't work for disks on another computer in a network. RECOVER should
- not be used with ASSIGNed, JOINed, or SUBSTed disk names.
-
- WARNING: If a disk has more than 112 files, only 112 can be recovered at one
- time, because the root directory can only have a maximum of 112 entries in it.
- After recovering some files, it is necessary to copy them to another disk,
- delete all the FILEnnnn.REC entries, and repeat the RECOVER command, until all
- the files are recovered.