>Robert Covington wrote...
>
>>1.  Norton's UnErase works for some files but not all.


Charlie wrote:

>There is a shareware utility called Data Rescue that can recover files that
>both Norton and Tech Tool both crap out on. It should be available from one
>of the normal download sites.
>
>Also, before you reinitialize your hard drive you should get a copy of Disk
>Warrior and have it reconstruct your drive's directory. That's all it does
>and it does it very well! It will also let you see what it has done before
>it makes any permanent changes to your drive. You can get it on the web at
>www.alsoft.com.
>
>Charlie Dickman
>charlied@...


First, thanks for the replies from Chris Young and in other mail Phil
Yates, and Andy Pritchard, and anyone I missed if so.

Charlie,

Thanks so much for your 2 suggestions!

I took a look at Disk Warrior and will be ordering that Monday when I get
the bucks. Looks like a good alternative. -Real- glad I didn't re-intialize
after using Norton, because it looks like Norton's "recovery" is not
working well at all for most items, even when they were "100 percent"
recoverable. Picture files are all scrambled; my "8 percent recoverable" In
Box mail was a 9 megabyte file of the same two repeating letters....

However, the coolest thing is that "Data-Rescue" program. While I won't be
able to register that until Monday or Tuesday ($), it still allows one file
per session recovery. And it works.

I got my email back! :) _All_ of it. This includes tons of FB inbox code
and other stuff, including my whole In Box. Plus the best thing are the
couple of letters Mars wrote responding to a few enquiries I made before he
disappeared, which were very helpful,and good reference help. Now I got 'em
back.

When I get it registered, I will recover the whole volume at once, and if
the mail is any indication, most of it should work again, as if new. That's
cool.

Thanks thanks thanks.

And thanks to the developer of that utility. I think the web site is
http://www.wildbits.com  Found it via search at www.downloads.com

Going to be a good $39 well spent, and $69 for Disk Warrior. Wondering more
and more about the $99 for Norton. ;) But that did help for what I got it
for originally a couple months ago, which was recovering a missing 150
megabytes of disk space that "Burn" killed during a crashed free space
wipe. (The resulting temp file had only released half its size upon
deletion.)

Life can be tough in Diskies-Ville, wonder if I have been "Array-sing"
things with all my FB crashes. :)

Sincerely,

Robert Covington
Discoverer, Bit-Eating Flash Virus
Recoverer, Thanks to Data-Rescue
Blubberer, Thanks To Norton and Symantec.

Not sure what that last one means, but it rhymes, sort of. >:)