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by arahigihs

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Someone called me yesterday saying that he accidentally formatted his HD. He is an older gentleman, and was trying to format floppy disks to back up some valuable data. He got a little confused and consulted his users manual and realized a little too late that the directions that he was reading were for HD formatting. It there any software that is extremely affordable that might recover his valuable data?

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by ozi eagle

According to my DOS 6.2 manual there is an UNFORMAT command. You will need to boot to DOS from a floppy
Syntax
UNFORMAT drive: /switches

Switches
/L Lists all files & subdirectories found on the formated drive

/P Echoes program messages to the standard printing device

/TEST Processes, but does not write any changes to the formatted disk.

Good luck

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