Re: [OT] Plea for help

2011-10-17 Thread Bob Sneidar
I think Disk Warrior will create a new copy of the partition map, but he doesn't have one apparently. Not sure if Disk Warrior will deal with that. Bob On Oct 15, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Tim Selander wrote: > I used Disk Warrior with great success many times in the OS9 days; not sure > if they sti

Re: [OT] Plea for help

2011-10-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 10/16/2011 03:27 AM, 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

Re: [OT] Plea for help

2011-10-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 10/16/2011 03:26 AM, Tim Selander wrote: I used Disk Warrior with great success many times in the OS9 days; not sure if they still are around under OSX. I have also had success with "Data Rescue" from Prosoft Engineering. It doesn't 'fix' the disk, but scans the disk and copies off files it

Re: [OT] Plea for help

2011-10-15 Thread ddas
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 sc

Re: [OT] Plea for help

2011-10-15 Thread Roger Eller
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

Re: [OT] Plea for help

2011-10-15 Thread Tim Selander
I used Disk Warrior with great success many times in the OS9 days; not sure if they still are around under OSX. I have also had success with "Data Rescue" from Prosoft Engineering. It doesn't 'fix' the disk, but scans the disk and copies off files it finds to a second disk (so you need another

Re: [OT] Plea for help

2011-10-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 10/15/2011 09:42 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: On 15 Oct 2011, at 20:34, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Advice gratefully received [ apart from "always backup everything onto 97 seperate devices . . . :( ] Livecode.tv event now ongoing! Also not what you wanted to hear i guess... You probably

Re: [OT] Plea for help

2011-10-15 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 15 Oct 2011, at 20:34, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > Advice gratefully received [ apart from "always backup everything onto 97 > seperate devices . . . :( ] Livecode.tv event now ongoing! Also not what you wanted to hear i guess... You probably dropped the partition table. I think all data s

[OT] Plea for help

2011-10-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
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 i