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     RECOVER(DOS)      UNIX System V       RECOVER(DOS)



     Name
          recover - recovers a file or disk containing bad sectors


     Syntax
               recover [drive:]

          or

          recover drive:[pathname]


     Description
          If chkdsk shows that a sector on your disk is bad, you can
          use  recover  to  recover  the  entire disk or just the file
          containing the bad sector.

          This action causes MS-DOS to read the file sector by  sector
          and  to  skip  the  bad  sectors.   When  MS-DOS finds a bad
          sector, it marks the sector so that it no  longer  allocates
          your data to that sector.


     Examples
          To recover a disk in drive A you would enter  the  following
          command:

               recover a:

          Suppose you have a file named pencil.ad that has a  few  bad
          sectors.  To recover this file you would enter the following
          command:

          recover pencil.ad


     Notes
          recover is an external command.


     RECOVER(DOS)        (printed 8/16/89)       RECOVER(DOS)