I tried Active-Undelete -- do you think a second program offers any added hope? "'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. And then shits on your head." -Emily Dickinson, mostly

Thanks, everyone. No luck, though. I went wrong in a few ways: by keeping my computer on all night (somehow I thought that'd be better than re-booting it in the morning), by not having a secondary drive to install the undelete program (low-tech, here), and by, of course, not previously having an …

Does Windows XP have any fancy ones? I tried the "undo last command" option in the "edit" menu of the file windows, but that didn't seem to take into account what I had done in DosBox. - brandon

Because I think I just deleted a character in Quest for Glory 2 that I've been working on for a week. I was having some trouble in DosBox, and tried to clear it out by deleting everything I had mounted. I, um, was unaware that what I mounted was not a copy of what was elsewhere on my hard drive... …