Hah! DOS also includes a valuable tool by the name of recover.exe. Back in the days of DOS 3, trying to restore some deleted Leisure Suit Larry saved games from my 80286 PC, I had the good sense to go and use it... 
C:\>RECOVER
RECOVER [drive:][path]filename

C:\>RECOVER C:
[much grinding, thrashing, wailing and gnashing of a 40 meg MFM drive 
+for a very long time]

C:\>DIR
... FILE0001.REC
... FILE0002.REC
... FILE0003.REC
.
.
.
... FILE0040.REC
         40 File(s)      21,505,356 bytes
          0 Dir(s)       20,102,016 bytes free

C:\>
[much screaming, kicking, and pounding on desk by a thirteen-year-old 
+kid, for a very long time]

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Oh, the memories...

For the confused or non-amused, I lifted the following explanation:

  
2. RECOVER
... The worst example of RECOVER's 
deadliness is when you use it on a hard drive. RECOVER sees these thin
+gs 
called subdirectories and assumes they're all bad files. So it convert
+s 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 writ
+ten 
specifically to recover from the RECOVER command.

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   MeowChow                                   
               s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print

In reply to (MeowChow) Re3: Restoring deleted files under Linux by MeowChow
in thread Restoring deleted files under Linux by chipmunk

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