mike2002
09-07-2003, 02:01 PM
I'm running Windows 98SE.
We all know (or should know) that a deleted file (if not overwritten) can be recovered with a program such as 'PC Inspector' (free plug for a freeware program!).
But say you Cut a file, Paste it somewhere else, (an external backup for instance) then 'lose' the backup. 'Cut' doesn't equate to Delete, because it cannot be recovered by an undelete program.
What has happened to the reference to the original 'Cut' file?
It's just that I Cut and Pasted some files to a CD-RW via InCD, and shut down the PC before I had ejected the disk. Normally InCD won't let this happen, and completes it's task (infuriatingly slowly). In this instance, when I booted the following day, InCD said that an unfinished task had occured and prompted me to reformat the disk. A couple of these Pasted files were not on the disk.
:confused:
We all know (or should know) that a deleted file (if not overwritten) can be recovered with a program such as 'PC Inspector' (free plug for a freeware program!).
But say you Cut a file, Paste it somewhere else, (an external backup for instance) then 'lose' the backup. 'Cut' doesn't equate to Delete, because it cannot be recovered by an undelete program.
What has happened to the reference to the original 'Cut' file?
It's just that I Cut and Pasted some files to a CD-RW via InCD, and shut down the PC before I had ejected the disk. Normally InCD won't let this happen, and completes it's task (infuriatingly slowly). In this instance, when I booted the following day, InCD said that an unfinished task had occured and prompted me to reformat the disk. A couple of these Pasted files were not on the disk.
:confused: