Thanks to an excellent Data recovery service in Hertfordshire, UK, (email me for the reference if you want it) I've just emerged unscathed from a potentially disastrous hard disk wipeout. The experience might be instructive. Pismo running OS9.1. Recently-installed 40 gig hard disk. Importing some tracks from CD into iTunes when it crashed. Restarted only to get the flashing "I can't find an OS" folder. Never seen this in my life before. Fiddled about a bit to no avail then decided to install an OS on the second of the two partitions I'd set up for the new drive. Started up from this ok. (Though ominously getting a "This disk is unreadable do you want to initialise it?" box first. Said no of course) However, my Entourage emails weren't present - presumably on the now-dead OS on Partition 1.So I ran Disk Doctor on Partition 1 hoping to cure it. It found some "major problems" and instructed me to fix them. I did (but didn't make a note of what they were sadly). Restarted and - oh horror! - the first partition, with my work on, had disappeared. Apple system profiler said it was "not mounted." Well I could see that... My rescuer in Hertfordshire got it back for me, reformatted the disk, installed Os 9.2.2 and all seems well. What is interesting is that he said almost all the problems he'd seen of similar type were on partitioned disks. This is contrary to what we are told. "Partition a new disk." But I needed no persuasion. No partitions! Any comments? Any speculations as to why this all happened?TONY
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