Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-29 Thread Paul
On Nov 21, 4:05 pm, Roger Kulp thorenstd...@yahoo.com wrote: I was wondering about data recovery myself.I had a G4 MDD,and the  surge protector got wet the other day.There was a spectacular fireworks display,that blew out the wiring in the room,and now my poor Mac is dead.:_( Can anything

Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-23 Thread Roger Kulp
--- On Sat, 11/21/09, Paul pper...@gmail.com wrote: From: Paul pper...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Data Recovery Part 2 To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 2:41 AM I returned the drive, since the friend who owns it has another large drive to dump saved files, much more

Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-23 Thread Kasey Smith
,and now my poor Mac is dead.:_( Can anything be saved? Roger --- On Sat, 11/21/09, Paul pper...@gmail.com wrote: From: Paul pper...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Data Recovery Part 2 To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, November 21

Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-23 Thread Charles Davis
On Nov 21, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Roger Kulp wrote: I was wondering about data recovery myself.I had a G4 MDD,and the surge protector got wet the other day.There was a spectacular fireworks display,that blew out the wiring in the room,and now my poor Mac is dead.:_( Can anything be

Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-21 Thread Paul
I returned the drive, since the friend who owns it has another large drive to dump saved files, much more than I do. He also has a much newer Mac. I also gave him a copy of PhotoRec and demo versions of File Salvage and Data Rescue. Now I'm waiting to hear if he got any positive results. He's

Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-18 Thread Paul
Now that I think about it, those Mac system files I mentioned earlier would have been created at the time the hard drive was inadvertently formatted. THen the question is whether these files get modified if nobody is deliberately trying to write to the drive. -- You received this message because

Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-15 Thread Baha Ata
good thing share your expeirence after please 2009/11/15 Paul pper...@gmail.com As far as I know, none of the tools I used changed the disk at all. Now that I looked at it and found out what it's for, the companion utility to Testdisk - Photorec - looks more promising for what I'm trying to

Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-15 Thread Paul
Unfortunately, connecting the drive to a Mac (running Tiger) creates a few files automatically, such as .DS_Store and .Trashes. Connecting it to a PC creates a Recycled file for the Windows recycling bin. I didn't see a way to make the drive read only. -- You received this message because you

Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-15 Thread Baha Ata
ah hmmm... you must download rescue 3 provided link and boot from rescue 3 cd 2009/11/15 Paul pper...@gmail.com Unfortunately, connecting the drive to a Mac (running Tiger) creates a few files automatically, such as .DS_Store and .Trashes. Connecting it to a PC creates a Recycled file for

Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-15 Thread Paul
On Nov 15, 4:39 pm, Jim McGee orb...@dslextreme.com wrote: Don't know if this helps http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2216434 There are two parts to that discussion. One is the possibility of setting permissions in OS X so that the drive is read only. But can that be done

Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-14 Thread Paul
Testdisk seems more suitable for fixing partition problems, rather than recovering a directory structure lost by formatting. The demo versions of both File Salvage and Data Rescue have brought up a bunch of working files. Since the disk is formatted FAT32 (but formatted on a Mac by Disk Utility),

Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-14 Thread Baha Ata
than recovering a directory structure lost by formatting Try test disc with deep search... do not use lots of recovey tools that change disc architecture... For Data Rescue... http://www.macosxapplications.com/system-disk-utilities/data-rescue-3-emergency-hard-drive-recovery-file-recovery/

Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-14 Thread Paul
As far as I know, none of the tools I used changed the disk at all. Now that I looked at it and found out what it's for, the companion utility to Testdisk - Photorec - looks more promising for what I'm trying to do. It finds deleted files, rather than deleted partitions. There's a version for

Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-12 Thread John Musbach
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Paul pper...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried File Salvage? Do you know where to get it for less than the $70-$80 prices I've seen? If your files really aren't worth all that much to you then why go through all this effort? ;-) Really, if the files are worth

Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-12 Thread Baha Ata
Data Rescue 3 one of the best software for rescue data Focusing rescue... You may have look... I have experienced similiar problems http://www.macosxapplications.com/system-disk-utilities/data-rescue-3-emergency-hard-drive-recovery-file-recovery/ 'Today, one of my powerbook’s system

Re: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-12 Thread Baha Ata
You may try Test Disk for especially for Windows partion... it is free... and it may find your volume and you may recover it. Go on their site and carefully read it. If you do not use any other program or anything you may rescue your data One above recommend software i used (Data Rescue 3)

RE: Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-12 Thread Stewie de Young
22:57:35 +0200 Subject: Re: Data Recovery Part 2 From: baha...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Data Rescue 3 one of the best software for rescue data Focusing rescue... You may have look... I have experienced similiar problems http://www.macosxapplications.com/system-disk-utilities

Data Recovery Part 2

2009-11-11 Thread Paul
A couple of months ago, I reported trying to recover an external hard drive used on a Mac but formatted as FAT32. I believe it was wiped out by Disk Utility doing a quick format. Recovery attempts under Windows got a lot of files, but barely any were readable. I'd post a continuation on the old