At 6:29 PM -0800 11/9/2010, MaGioZal wrote:
I am currently running Mac OS 9 and 10.4 on a Beige G3 PowerMac, and
recently the biggest, non-booting partition which contained alot of
softwares and data (from which I didn't make backup...:-/) just died
down after some forced shutdowns. I've tried 3 different tools of disk
recovery, but I've got no results, as can be seen on the gallery:
[Disk First Aid, Norton, Disk Utility]
Well, the big quetion is: qaht can I do now to rescue this partition?
Is there any free alternative or just DiskWarrior can help?
First, realize that Norton Utilities for Mac, Disk Doctor in
particular, is *known* to be incompatible with Tiger. It corrupts
HFS+ volumes and, as I recall, destroys journaling data. Symantec
abandoned NDD back in 2004 because they couldn't manage to fix it.
That the volume is not your boot volume is a good thing. Hopefully
all that you've done to it so far has not damaged it too badly.
Boot into OS X and follow these directions to mount the volume read-only.
<http://support.apple.com/kb/TA23941>
If that works, use Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to back up as much of the
volume as you can. Then re-initialize (erase) it with Disk Utility,
and reload it with CCC.
<http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html>
IF you cannot mount the volume read-only, then try Data Rescue. It
can do a low-level scan of the drive to see what can be recovered.
<http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue_info.php>
DiskWarrior is also an option. But it requires a semi-intact file
system whereas Data Rescue does not - it scans the damaged file
system and augments it with the actual file structures it finds on
the disk.
HTH,
- Dan.
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