On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > It's been a long time, but IIRC there were quite a number of tools > around to do semi-automated recovery on FAT/FAT32 disks back in the > days. They should still be out there. > Back in DOS times I was doing hard drive recovery service. Manual or automatic tools, does not matter as most of the times the client already tried to recover the files by themselves knowing nothing about it. And it includes even formatting the disk! I mean, how could you recover files after that? Maybe with a military grade analyser that works on the slack magnetic fields or something :-) Anyway, I think a filesystem should be fault tolerant -- forgetting unmounting the disk before removing it, or power fail or ESD or even Software bug should not cause loss of everything or huge bunch of files. maybe portion of your data would be lost -- uncommitted data -- but the old version of the file should be still there anyway. Theoretically you have two copy of the FAT in FAT FS which is exactly for this reason, but that does not really help in practise. At least that is my experience. Tamas > > Gerhard > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s="int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=%s%s%s, q=%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }", q="\"",s,q,q,a="\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); } -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist