On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Steve Westwood wrote:

> 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.

Check the docs for DOS debug, it will allow you to read and dump disk
sectors.  The old Noron Utilities wold also allow you to do this with a
simpler interface.

Dale
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