Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
Nothing awesomely complex or unusual here.
What Ben meant is that it would have been unusual for it to be an NTFS formatted drive being used with a Mac. That it was a Mac native drive that got formatted over by NTFS isn't unusual...or at least it is understandable how that happened.
Based on looking around, all the tools which recover formatted or deleted files seem to perform regardless of past or present filesystem. Since they perform read-only at the block-level, looking for recognizable patterns "this looks like a jpg" and "this looks like a .doc file" etc.
A tool designed specifically for an OS X native file system might have a better chance at recovery, as it might be able to make use of any file system metadata that didn't get destroyed in the reformat, and might have a better chance of chasing down the blocks of a fragmented file.
Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
I've used Restorer 2000 in the past...
I've used that as well, and it seemed to work good, but it is NTFS specific. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
