How Can I Access the Recycle Bin of Win2000 Pro in Dos

[hackmole]

How can I access the Recycler folder (recycle bin) of
Win2000 Pro in Dos.
It does not show up in Dos where it is supposed to be right on
the C drive.

I accidentally deleted a few files like the ntldr file on my C drive that boot up my system and now I can't bootup so I need to
access the recyle bin (recycler folder) by Dos and move the files back to the C drive.

 

[amdxborg]

Mine is under C:\Recycled\ If you can't find it there, maybe it's hidden. I know this isn't exactly what ur looking for, but maybe there's a something that would help.

 

[13black]

If you formated in NTFS you can't. You would need something like this Dos NTFS. If you formated in fat32 then you should be able to browse your hard drive from dos. The recyle bin is named recycler and is a hidden folder in the root of the c:\ drive. To remove the hidden attribute you need to run "attrib -H c:\recycler" without the quotes.

 

[emoxley]

Maybe you can copy and paste?
Copy while in windows, and paste it after you go into dos?
You may have to go back and forth a few times, till you get all the parts you need...........
Just an idea.........have never worked with dos, and am new to windows.

 

[Harvey]

Here's a link to a freeware utility that is supposed to be an NTFS driver for MS-DOS.

NTFS Reader DOS Boot Disk provides read access to NTFS drives from the MS DOS environment. It supports long filenames as well as compressed and fragmented files. NTFS Reader for DOS allows you to preview the files on NTFS and copy them from NTFS to FAT volumes or network drives. In order to use the software you need to copy the readntfs.exe file to a bootable floppy disk and boot from it.

NTFS Reader for DOS is a FREEWARE
Software features:

* Can be saved and run from bootable floppy (download boot disk image)
* Displays complete physical and logical drive information
* Supports IDE / ATA / SCSI drives
* Supports large (more than 8GB) Hard Drive
* Supports NTFS, NTFS5 file systems for reading
* Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 file systems for data writing
* Supports compressed and fragmented files on NTFS
* Supports partitions created in MS-DOS, Windows XP.2000.NT.ME.98.95
* Displays non-english and long file names
* Ability to preview file(s)/folder(s) before copying
* Supports search by file name or mask
* Disk Viewer displays content of the file in Hex/Text mode

The DOS command, ATTRIB can be used to hide/unhide files and directories (folders).

Hope that helps.