Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!sri-unix!sri-spam!ames!oliveb!amdahl!amdcad!philip From: philip@amdcad.AMD.COM (Philip Freidin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Recovering file that DIR says is 0 bytes. Message-ID: <17695@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 15:15:39 EDT Article-I.D.: amdcad.17695 Posted: Fri Jul 24 15:15:39 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 15:31:26 EDT References: <4142@vrdxhq.UUCP> Reply-To: philip@amdcad.UUCP (Philip Freidin) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, Ca. Lines: 28 Keywords: FAT, file closing In article <4142@vrdxhq.UUCP> bisanabi@vrdxhq.UUCP (Paul Paloski) writes: > >Five days ago I was using Procomm to communicate with a BBS. I had a >log file open to capture all data being displayed on my terminal. >After about an hour of scrolling messages (I was going to read and >sort them later), I promptly logged out and powered the machine off >without exiting Procomm. It immediately dawned on me that the FAT may >not have been updated. I held my breath and turned my AT on again. >Sure enough, the file size was listed as 0 bytes ! Argghhh! I didn't > .... more assorted descriptions of computer abuse..... I too have done this, and at least for me, I found a wonderful program to dig me out! chkdsk /f This will let you recover most of what was sent (maybe even all). Hope this helps. Philip Freidin @ AMD SUNYVALE on {favorite path!amdcad!philip) Section Manager of Product Planning for Microprogrammable Processors (you know.... all that 2900 stuff...) "We Plan Products; not lunches" (a quote from a group that has been standing around for an hour trying to decide where to go for ZemZemZ