OpenEuphoria

Re: WARNING!

• Posted by Robert B Pilkington <bpilkington at JUNO.COM> Oct 06, 1998
• 606 views

>Now, my complete system is down. I had the SNAKE.EXE program run
>freely, because I got distracted away from the PC when I started it up,
>and when I came back bad stuff had happened. Does this mean I've
>lost verything? If so, I have this system recovery CD, but it will
format
>my HD and make the PC look like it did from the retailer. Is it possible
>to get back what I've lost (probably everything)? I write from work now,
>I do not have access (to anything) at home, so to get in touch write me
>at
>
>euarchive at hotmail.com
>
>Yes, I know. I'm a stupid $=A3!#, but us norwegians tend to be naive.
>The worst part is that I've maybe lost all my programming.

Okay, good news: It shouldn't be too hard to get your source code back.
Bad news: Binary files are a lot tougher.


Here's my theory (not tested, but should work):

What you need to know, is that the only thing that anything happened to
is the FAT. The files still exist, but they are overwritten as soon as
new data comes to replace it. You need a hard disk viewer program, so you
can look at the contents of the hard drive directly. (I think one come's
with the Norton tools stuff.)

If you can download or get a hard drive veiwer, try to not put anything
on your home computer. You may overwrite something important. (Like
Hayes!  Chances are, though, that what will be overwritten is some
data file from somewhere else, but why chance it? You'll either want to
put the veiwer on a DOS boot disk, or get another hard drive (borrow a
friend's or find a real cheap and small one from somewhere) and boot it
as master and slave your nuked disk to it.

Using the veiwer, run a search or something for certain Euphoric text.
(Look for comments or lines of code you remember) This will take a while,
but you should be able restore files as you find the information. Once
you have restored all the important text files you can find (you probably
won't be able to find binarys very well, so they are gone), you can
install software again.

You could probably install DOS or something without risking too much
code, if you have to.

Hope this helps. I've sent this to the list so hopefully others can try
the same thing. (Remember: These veiwers only work (for creating files)
with Win95 unloaded and having run the LOCK command to allow direct disk
access.)


___________________________________________________________________
You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail.
Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com
or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]