Read from File Allocation Table

[BogdanMBM]

Hie!
Is there any way in VB (API) to read from File Allocation Table?
If you have any ideea to give me a start on this...

Thanks!

 

[alehawk]

I found this maybe it helps, i dont know....

http://www.pscode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=44386&lngWId=1

 

[strongm]

Er...unfortunately, as its description indicates, that's just a demo of how a file allocation table filesystem works, not in any way a program that gives access to a real FAT

Sadly, I'm not aware of a way of doing this from VB

 

[BogdanMBM]

Yep. I've read it and, as strongm says, is an emulation of a FAT system. I (kind of) know how a FAT works. What I don't know is how to access it by bypassing the sistem, in order to be able to "undelete" deleted files, for example. This is the main goal of my application and I must say, I don't have a clue how to do it...

Thanks anyway, guys!
If you happen to find out something about this, maybe you'll post it here. Thanks again.

 

[strongm]

Oh, I used to write file recovery and undeletion, FAT recovery and all sorts of low-level FAT stuff years ago in C for DOS. Just don't know how to do it from VB under an OS that deliberately removes direct access from the hardware...

 

[BogdanMBM]

OS that deliberately removes direct access from the hardware..."

Yes, that's the main problem, hmm...

 

[farmor]

Strongm, Have you saved any of those DOS recovery programs? I accidentally deleted all the files on one partition of a DOS/Win 3.11 for WorkGroups machine. I was able to retrieve some of them using DOS or PCShell. Others were reported as excellent, but returned garbage after the undelete. It appears that some merged into monster files. Although the partition shows no files, only 1/3 of the space is free. One directory contained picture work I was doing in Photoshop and that whole directory disappeared from the deleted list. Do you think there's any hope of recovering it and if so, how? Is there any way of displaying the FAT table and following the cluster linkages? Tape backup couldn't see that partition. I haven't saved anything to that partition since the catastrophe. My pretty good DOS handbook that I've used to do some sophisticated things implies there is a way to do this, but so far I haven't deciphered it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[trollacious]

Sounds like you could use a good disk editor.

Lee

 

[Sheco]

Maybe you could shell debug.exe and then use sendkeys or somesuch...

 

[strongm]

>Have you saved any of those

Um ... no ... it was more than 10 years ago ...

 

[johnwm]

If you've lost serious work then go and get a good commercial recovery suite.

http://www.php-mysql-perl.com/scrip...432-bitsmart_restorer_2000_data_recovery.html

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