In my upgrading and repairing seminars, I use the Norton Disk Editor an often-neglected
program that's part of the Norton Utilities and Norton System Works to explore drives. I also use
Disk Editor to retrieve "lost" data. Because Disk Editor is a manual tool, it can sometimes be
useful even when friendlier automatic programs don't work or are not available. For example,
Disk Editor can be used with any drive that uses FAT, including Linux. Also, because Disk Editor
displays the structure of your drive in a way other programs don't, it's a perfect tool for learning
more about disk drive structures as well as recovering "lost" data. In this section, I'll discuss two
of the simpler procedures you can perform with Disk Editor: undeleting a file on a floppy disk and
copying a deleted file on a hard disk to a different drive.
If you have Norton System Works, System Works Professional, or Norton Utilities for Windows,
you have Norton Disk Editor. To determine whether it's installed on your system, look in the
Program Files\Norton Utilities folder for the files DISKEDIT.EXE and DISKEDIT.HLP.
If you don't find these files on your hard disk, you can run them directly from the Norton
installation CD. If you have System Works or System Works Professional, look for the CD folder
called \NU to locate these files. If you have trouble locating them, remember you can always use
the Windows Search function to search for them.
DISKEDIT is a DOS-based program, and it is designed to access FAT-based file systems such as
FAT12 (floppy disks), FAT16 (MS-DOS and early Windows 95 hard disks), and FAT32
program that's part of the Norton Utilities and Norton System Works to explore drives. I also use
Disk Editor to retrieve "lost" data. Because Disk Editor is a manual tool, it can sometimes be
useful even when friendlier automatic programs don't work or are not available. For example,
Disk Editor can be used with any drive that uses FAT, including Linux. Also, because Disk Editor
displays the structure of your drive in a way other programs don't, it's a perfect tool for learning
more about disk drive structures as well as recovering "lost" data. In this section, I'll discuss two
of the simpler procedures you can perform with Disk Editor: undeleting a file on a floppy disk and
copying a deleted file on a hard disk to a different drive.
If you have Norton System Works, System Works Professional, or Norton Utilities for Windows,
you have Norton Disk Editor. To determine whether it's installed on your system, look in the
Program Files\Norton Utilities folder for the files DISKEDIT.EXE and DISKEDIT.HLP.
If you don't find these files on your hard disk, you can run them directly from the Norton
installation CD. If you have System Works or System Works Professional, look for the CD folder
called \NU to locate these files. If you have trouble locating them, remember you can always use
the Windows Search function to search for them.
DISKEDIT is a DOS-based program, and it is designed to access FAT-based file systems such as
FAT12 (floppy disks), FAT16 (MS-DOS and early Windows 95 hard disks), and FAT32