Disk Warrior is the best tool under the circumstances, as mentioned by Tim. Tech Tool Pro is a good supplement.
Good luck, -Debdoot On Oct 15, 2011, at 8:27 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
