[Trlog] I really did it this time VY1JA

[Mark Bailey]

Hi J:

The most important thing to do to try to recover is NOT to write
anything to that disk drive.  Minimize any access to it.  Don't
boot from that drive if you can possibly avoid it.

Do you have another computer?  Could you create a MS-DOS boot floppy
to use to boot the laptop (does it have a floppy drive)?  If not,
I can send you a bootable DOS CD image if you have a CD burner.

Once you boot from the CD or floppy, try to COPY the logback.dat
file to the floppy and see what that is...

There are a few MS-DOS "undelete" utilities that may work.  If no
one with any experience with them chimes in, a "google" search
may yield some.  CHKDSK may also work.  I hope someone with more
experience in file recovery will chime in.

BTW, thanks for giving me a clean sweep!  :-)   Hope to see you in SSB
also!

73,

Mark, KD4D

J. Allen wrote:
> Hello, all.
> 
> SS05CW was quite a bit of work.  I droped out dead tired at about 00:00 with 616 QSOs in the log.
> 
> Today, I looked at the files in my SS05CW folder and I have only the temp log with about 5 QSOs in it.  The counter still shows 617 as the next QSO, but both TR and POST each only give me that one handful.
> 
> The directory looks like this:
> logback.dat        27k
> ss05cw.cfg          1k
> ss05cw.dat          1k
> ss05cw.rst         29k
> ss05cw.tmp         1k
> 
> All that work is just gone and I do not know what I did to it.  I have been using TR for years now, and it is reliable.  
> 
> My regular computer died and I did CQP on this same backup laptop where it worked fine.  I had turned the save to floppy function on, with a formatted blank floppy in the laptop, but nothing was on it at the end of the contest either. 
> 
> Any ideas of possible causes or what I need to do to avoid this in the future?
> 
> J.
> VY1JA
> 
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