Hi everybody and thanks for your concern and suggestions with my fatal disk initialization. I've tried 4 different apps, and nothing helped. I've now given up.
I tried (in order): TechTools Pro 3 Norton Utilities Data Rescue DiskWarrior Perhaps the result had been better, if I had tried them in another order or at least skipped Norton (which I was thoroughly warned about outside this discussion list) altogether, but we will never know. If interested, below is a message from Tech Support at MicroMat (which do TechTools Pro) in this issue. Thanks again for your time and concern. As far as I'm concerned, the subject is now closed. Best, Max G > ---Message från MicroMat Tech Support--- > > Max, > > Your best bet would be to send the drive to a data recovery company > such as DriveSavers. They have special techniques to manually work on > drives and are often successful recovering data from reinitialized > drives--as long as you did not choose the option to "zero all data". > However, this is an expensive option and the data would need to be > fairly valuable. > > We have seen cases where the Scavenge routines in TechTool Pro can > recover some data from a reinitialized drive. It would depend on > exactly what happened and the current state of the drive. > Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing how successful this will be > without trying it. > > If you are considering doing any data recovery, do not alter or write > anything to the disk until you are finished doing recovery. Also, be > sure to recover any files to another location--not back to the same > disk. > > Sincerely, > MicroMat Tech Support > > ---End Message från MicroMat Pro Tech Support--- At 25 mars 2003, 23.02 CET, Mirko Kranenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes! That gets you much farther (further?) than Norton. >Look here: <http://www.prosoftengineering.com/index.php> > >Mirko > >-- >Mirko Kranenburg >e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:52:10 +0100 Mikke Byström wrote: > >>Whatbout the app Data Rescue?
