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Title Equivalent QNX2 file recovery tools for QNX4
Ref. No. QNX.000009628
Category(ies) Utilities, Filesystem
Issue In QNX2, there were some useful file recovery utilities called scan_for_file and relink_file.  The scan_for_file utility would allow you to specify a string or ascii sequence, starting block, etc. and then would start searching the disk drive for an occurrence of this string.  This was particularly useful if you had accidentally removed a file or directory and wanted to try and recover lost data.  The relink_file utility would allow you to create a new file name or specify an existing file to link the newfound data into.

Does QNX4 have any utilities, similar to QNX2's scan_for_file, that will let us search un-allocated areas of the disk for specific data?
Solution Yes, there is a tool called disk_raw which may be obtained from our Contributed software section in the path /usr/free/qnx4/os/utils/disk/disk_raw.tgz