How to run 16bit DOS apps in Win2000 Server

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Is it possible to run Norton's Unerase on a Windows 2000
Server. Unerase is a 16bit DOS app and I am looking for a
way to undelete some files on our Win2000 Server. Problem
is that Unerase cannot access local drive (errors out with
unable to access local drives).

Any Ideas?
 
Vahalla said:
Is it possible to run Norton's Unerase on a Windows 2000
Server. Unerase is a 16bit DOS app and I am looking for a
way to undelete some files on our Win2000 Server. Problem
is that Unerase cannot access local drive (errors out with
unable to access local drives).

Any Ideas?
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NT won't allow programs to access the hardware directly like that, and even
if it did Unerase was written for the FAT file system.

You need something written for 32-bit Windows and NTFS. Here's two that I
know of:
http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/filerestore.asp
http://consumer.execsoft.com/undelete/undelete.asp

For a free utility that may prevent this in the future:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/fundelete.shtml

The longer this server is used your chance of restoring those files goes
down, because they may have been overwritten by new disk activity. You can
only restore deleted files if new data has not been written to that location
on the disk (something you can't control)
 
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