If it is a fat-16 filesystem, then chkdsk or scandisk should pick it up and
save it as a lost chain of clusters under a funky filename e.g.
FILE0001.CHK.  If it is fat-32 YMMV.  You could also try looking at
www.ontrack.com for some downloadable data recovery utility than can be run
from a bootable floppy.  In theory (with an immense emphasis on THEORY)
nothing should overwrite the space, since it is "technically allocated"
already (marked as used space in the fat tables).  CHKDSK "should" be able
to recover it for you though.  Just remember to tell it to save the
information and it might be a good idea to generate the "undo" diskette when
prompted (just to be extra paranoid).

I hope this helps you some.  Let me know the results.

Michael Brown
Instant Net Solutions
www.KillerPCs.net

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From: "Steve Westwood" <steve.westwood@AESENGS.CO.UK>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 8:07 AM
Subject: [OT]: Failure of program to write EOF


> I have an embedded PC104 application that logs data, however the power has
> been switched off without the program writing an end of file. Therefore
the
> filename appears but with a size of zero bytes. Is there anyway of
> recovering this data. Its a dos based application and obviously I don't
want
> to install any software over the top of the missing data.
> In future obviously we will be closing the file on a regular basis. Any
help
> would be appreciated.
>
> Stephen Westwood
> Senior Electronics Engineer
> Advanced Engineering Solutions
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