On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > I took my 1.4 TB external hard-drive up to the school; partitioned into 8 > HFS+ partitions and 2 DOS ones. Tried to reformat one of the HFS+ ones as > DOS at which point the whole Hard-Drive went down. > > This was with Disk tools on a G3 iMac running Mac OS 10.4.11 > > Both Mac and Linux say the thing is completely unformatted; and I have lost > my backups for the last 15 years. > > Advice gratefully received [ apart from "always backup everything onto 97 > seperate devices . . . :( ]
Here's some free software that may help. You'll have to attach the drive to a Windows machine, and the hfs partitions are not recoverable with this tool. I've also seen drives recovered with testdisk on linux, but I haven't done it myself. http://www.ptdd.com/ ˜Roger _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
