Recovering Files with Salvage on Novell Netware

There is a chance of recovering deleted files during the next day or so by using the Netware program Salvage. This program only operates on the Town file servers (Drive F:) and can only restore files have been explicitly saved at some time.

1. Using Salvage

When Salvage starts up, the banner at the top of the window tells, which directory is active. Press Alt / Return to have the Salvage window occupy the whole screen for better visibility.

• To select an action, use the arrow keys to highlight it
• To carry out an action, press the Return key once it has been selected.
• To cancel any option, and go back to the previous stage, press the Esc key.
• Set Salvage Options is  used to select the way in which Salvage will sort the files it finds (For e.g.: by Name or by Date).

When starting the program View / Recover Deleted Files is already selected, and then press return. A text box, Erased File Name Pattern To Match containing * meaning "all files". Press Return to list all files and directories recently deleted from a Drive whose names match the pattern that have set. Go down into subdiretories to look for files, to go back up a directory, select the .. entry.

Choose a file for recovery on the basis of its name, date, time and especially its size (if this is not similar to the orginal file, then the salvaged file is unlikely to contain anything useful). Press Return when a suitable file is highlighted to cause Salvage to place it on F drive (it will then disappear from Salvage's list). If a file of the same name already exists on F Drive, Salvage will prompt for a new name for the recovered file.

To exit Salvage, press Esc until the Exit Salvage menu appears with Yes highlighted, then press the Return key.

Recovering Deleted Files under Windows 95

To recover a deleted file, that is , one that has been emptied from the Recycle Bin:

• Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode.
  
• Change Directory to the directory from which the file went to the Recycle Bin.
  
• Issue the undocumented MS-DOS command LOCK, enabling direct disk access. (LOCK /? displays help for the command)
  
• Issue the command UNDELETE myfile and follow the instructions. If no disk writes have occurred since the accidental deletion of the file, UNDELETE will successfully recover it.
  
• Issue the command UNLOCK.
  
• Issue the command EXIT. Computer will reboot and  return to Windows mode. If a future MS-DOS program starts full-screen rather than in a window, press ALT+ENTER to shrink it and future MS-DOS programs to start in a window. (That is , ALT+ENTER is a toggle for how MS-DOS programs start, either in a window or full-screen.)

Recovering Deleted Files

Everyone deletes a file accidentally. On a removable disk the file cannot be recovered. In some PC the file space is on the network Drive, not physically on the PC itself. This means that files cannot be sent to the Recycle Bin, as is usual in Windows 95/98/NT, they are directly deleted.