KS: > > I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run > the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk.
I am in exactly the same situation, currently. My approach is to use dd_rescue (package name: ddrescue) to dump the disk's content and now I am about to run testdisk on this dump to find the partition structure and any file still intact. Unfortunately, testdisk cannot write Mac partition tables itself, but I plan to use parted for that, using the values found by testdisk. If it works, I am going to run testdisk again to recover files from the partitions. It already helped me recover a friend's friend's files from an almost dead USB thumb drive, so I am quite optimistic that it will help me out again. J. -- We are lining up to see you fall flat on your face. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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