I am having a problem that is a bit of an annoyance.
I accidently erased some rather important information from a floppy deisk and i need to reteive it. How would i go about that?
GratsiGone. Sorry.If you have access to true MS-Dos (not the "Dos" in NT) you could try the Undelete utility. Just tried it to confirm using Win 98se and no problem undeleting files deleted using Dos or Win.

Good lucki've never been successful using undelete on a floppy...Salutations...

Absolutely no problems here with Undelete on a floppy.

Used it with standalone MS-Dos 6.22 and 7.1 and in the Win.98se Dos window (Undelete gives the option to close Windows, runs the undelete process then warm re-boots). The only thing you have to know is the first letter of the FILENAME which is to be Undeleted as that's the letter which is changed to a symbol when the file is deleted. If a different letter is used the file is Undeleted with that letter as first character of the filename and might cause some confusion especially with .exe files not being found.But that way would only work with 98... Why don't they have an undelete utility with XP ...
So, if you ARNT running with 98. You've lost your data.Hi Spedz. YEP, you're possibly right but even now lotsa folks are still running Win.98 & it's probably easy to get someone in a PC club or organisation to ASSIST. Help is usually not too far away.

Undelete.exe is available for free download. Maybe it's possible to add it to a bootdisk, boot from that disk and then Undelete B: - not tried that but will do soon.

Kind regards...

Minerva/Spedz.

Can now advise that the MS-Dos 6.22 bootdisk downloaded from here contains Undelete.exe and that it does indeed work perfectly.

The steps to follow are:
(1) download the file to your hard disk.
(2) insert a formatted floppy in the APPROPRIATE drive
(3) click on the file you downloaded to your hard disk. This will create the actual bootdisk on drive A:
(4) reboot with the bootdisk in A: This should boot into Dos
(5) at the A: prompt type UNDELETE B: and hit Enter you will be prompted to enter a disk in drive B: which as you will know is the other drive letter for A:

After inserting the disk you want to undelete just follow the prompts, re-inserting the bootdisk when prompted to do so.

When you have returned to the A: prompt remove the bootdisk and use Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot into Windows.

All should not be lost....

(Capital letters used for emphasis only)

Good luckI don't have the same problem, i was just saying... But Hey anyway
I mostly talk babble anyway...