Just looked through the help list on Win 2000. I see recover is still there.

I don't know what it's like now but I used to think it a stupidly named command. OK, it can recover files but it used to be that if you just entered "recover" you would rename everything on your disk to its own generated names. The unsuspecting could easily wreck their installation with it.

Maybe it gives some warnings now but I don't fancy playing with it to find out.