Microsoft KB Archive/86649

= RECOVER Command Does Not Rename Files =

Article ID: 86649

Article Last Modified on 11/16/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0a

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This article was previously published under Q86649



SUMMARY
The MS-DOS RECOVER command does not rename or move files. Recovered files are only renamed (and often moved) when RECOVER is used on an entire drive.



MORE INFORMATION
RECOVER is essentially two different utilities. One utility recovers readable information from a file that contains one or more unreadable, or bad, sectors. The other uses the file allocation table (FAT) to create a new root directory when the old root directory is corrupt. You essentially choose which utility to use when you specify that RECOVER should act on a file or on a drive.

RECOVER is discussed on pages 145 and 146 of &quot;The Microsoft MS-DOS User's Guide and Reference&quot; version 5.0 manual. The following statement is from page 145:

When the operation is complete, MS-DOS stores the recovered file in the root directory of the disk it came from. MS-DOS names the recovered files sequentially, beginning with FILE0001.REC.

From the context of the discussion on pages 145 and 146, it would appear that this paragraph applies to RECOVER in both cases. However, this paragraph does not apply when using RECOVER on a file; it only applies when using RECOVER on a drive.

For more information on RECOVER, query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

recover and chains and bad

Additional query words: 5.00 5.00a noupd

Keywords: KB86649

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