Drive Rescue on Diskettes

Visitor Feedback: A freeware data recovery program: a follow-up 

With regards to the last issue of the Infopackets Gazette
which informed our users of a Data Recovery program called
Drive Rescue, I wrote a comment: 

"If you accidentally delete a file, don't write anything
else to your hard drive -- even if you are attempting to
install Data Recovery software in the first place!
Otherwise, the drive may overwrite the area of the data
you're attempting to retrieve, making the rescue operation
impossible." 

Denise R. wrote in with a response to the above comment: 

I have Drive Rescue on a floppy for use in recovering files
on the C: drive; however, the program must be run from
within Windows. In order for this to work from the floppy
drive, you must have int13ext.vxd and int2f.vxd on the
floppy. These files are included in the downloadable version
of Drive Rescue (rescue_disk.zip). Simply extract to a clean
floppy. Then you can run the program from there. Again, the
caveat is to save recovered files to a disk other than what
they are recovered from. 

Of course, if there is nothing wrong with your hard drive,
you can always install the Drive Rescue onto your system
before any corruption occurs and attempt to run it that
way. The original file, rescue_disc.zip, is the one to
download and extract to the HD itself. When you run it, it
creates its own directory on whichever HD you install it on.
As I said, I have it on both drives so I don't make a
mistake and save recovered files to the wrong HD. 

Denise R. 

My comment: 

Thanks, Denise! It's good to know we have a forum of users
who are willing to help each other out.

