in article davidmor-C97E56.21523004112007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
David
Morrison at davidmor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote on 4/11/07 8:52 PM:
> I think I must have run over several black cats last week. I've lost
> things, been hurt by things and the guy who was to install my new
> kitchen is in hospital....
>
> But that's only the small stuff...
>
> Two hard disks died, one being the boot disk from my Mac with 250MB of
> files. I think I have some of it backed up, but I don;t know where the
> backup is. (I was flooded in June and most of my stuff is in storage.)
>
> Anyway, I've tried Diskwarrior and it is not happy. Data Rescue at least
> seems to be able to see things, but cannot get much back.
>
> I'm thinking I might need to send it to a recovery service. I seem to
> recall that there was one in Chatswood some years ago.
>
> Has anyone had any experience with disk recovery? Did it recover what
> you wanted? How much did it cost?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> David
Bad luck indeed. Cant help with the data recovery or the luck (maybe
sacrifice some goats or virgins) but just a note on Diskwarrior - it can
take up to 10-12 hours to make its way through a bad disk (in extreme
cases
of damage) but it will make it eventually. It doesn't tell you its doing
anything and looks like it has hung - a bad interface issue really. So
maybe you need to give it an overnight run, just in case.
Nigel
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