reading a Picaxe

[RickAlty]

Being the knuckle-dragging goober that I am, I've managed to overwrite the PC file containing a Picaxe program I've been working on.

The program is in a chip, and working fine as far as it goes, but a) I'm not quite finished tweaking it, and b) I'm going to want more than one.

Is there any way to read a program back out of a Picaxe?

Chip is an 18-X if it makes any difference.

Richard

 

[hippy]

Sorry, no way to do that at all.

 

[jwhooper]

How exactly did you overwrite the file? The information might still be on your hard drive. If you overwrote it with a smaller file, part of it would still be there.

I wrote a "shredder" utility to overwrite files with garbage and then delete them so that they can't be recovered, so I know a little about how files are stored.

 

[thelabwiz]

This is the primary reason I still have an ancient (Windows 95 and *not* upgradeable) ThinkPad laptop on the home network - it's the "backup drive" for current projects. Old and slow, but it just keeps on running - and the price was right "If you can fix it, you can have it." (My fix was to wipe Windows 98 off the machine and install Windows 95.)

John