[OT] Plea for help

[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 G3 iMac running Mac OS 10.4.11
>
> Both Mac and Linux say the thing is completely unformatted; and I have lost
> my backups for the last 15 years.
>
> Advice gratefully received  [ apart from "always backup everything onto 97
> seperate devices . . . :( ]


Here's some free software that may help.  You'll have to attach the drive to
a Windows machine, and the hfs partitions are not recoverable with this
tool.  I've also seen drives recovered with testdisk on linux, but I haven't
done it myself.

http://www.ptdd.com/

˜Roger