Re: Finally upgraded my WSII to OSX

Adam Thayer Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:07:57 -0700

Sorry, but at this point the only option is an expensive one. Drive Savers can recover data from a drive like this (as long as you aren't writing data to the disk!!!)... but they charge a very hefty fee to do so, as they use clean rooms, special equipment and take your drive apart to read the platters manually with their equipment.

Other than that... your only option is to re-create your drive by taking your data and backing it back up onto the drive. By erasing, you probably lost everything beyond a software solution's ability to recover. (An erase destroys the current file map and makes a new one... preventing Norton/etc from doing their job)

On Sep 17, 2003, at 10:15 AM, Steve Kerney wrote:

Upgrade went real well with one exception I'll get to in a moment. Thanks for your suggestions. They helped me overcome my trepidation and go for it.

Prior to installation, I decided to "erase" my OS X partition (Special -> Erase Disk) I but had the wrong disk partition selected ("Backup" instead of "OS 10")! Won't do that again (especially since, after the fact, I learned that the installation gives me the option to do just that!).

Disk warrior can't help me recover my here-yesterday-gone-today files so I bought Norton Utilities 8.0 hoping it would do the trick. I contacted the vendor prior to purchase asking them if their product will do this. I've not heard back (yet).

After the disk arrived last night, I tried both "Volume Recover" and "Unerase" several times selecting several different options, one of which took all night to scan my disk partion, but Norton can't find any of my "erased" files.

I've written nothing to the partition since the accident and have told the utilities I've tried (DW and NU) to not save changes.

Any suggestions on recovering my erased-through-carelessness "backup" disk partition?

Thanks.

Steve K (the other one)
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