2. RECOVER
... The worst example of RECOVER's 
deadliness is when you use it on a hard drive. RECOVER sees these things 
called subdirectories and assumes they're all bad files. So it converts each 
of your subdirectories into a FILExxxx.REC file. Tada! Instantly every file 
on your hard drive is effectively gone. Why does Microsoft keep such a deadly 
program around? To prove that RECOVER.EXE should be deleted from your hard 
drive, I should point out that the many disk-repair utilities in both Central 
Point Software's PC-Tools and Symantec's The Norton Utilities are written 
specifically to recover from the RECOVER command.