Forums: Waiting for Godot:

yes i'm stilling running os 9 on my mac. largely because it won't do os x nicely. well last night we went to hook up the akai mpd16, and were able to launch stuff off the drive. well about 10 minutes later when i went to save, it said there was a problem with the disk. shortly there after it locked up. so i restarted and it told me that the disk needed to be initialized.

i'm running nortons on it for a second time (looks like there are errors in the main b-tree allocating what can and can't be written to) so i'm hoping that a second pass might work.

now keep in mind this is the past 4 months of work that is at stake and i just bought the drive like 2 months ago because i didn't want to loose everything.

from what i'm reading online initializing the drive isn't going to zero all data, however apple says it will erase all that is there.

thoughts? suggestions? i've contemplated shooting the fucking thing but it has all that material on it!

imagerecall.com/

Works wonders for images, but I'm told it will pull other forms of data too.

mos -

My friend had his internal drive crap out on his iMac. Same deal - lots of months of work at stake, and he was pretty freaked out. He searched around and came across some program (around $100) that had a demo version, which showed him what potential files the program would recover.

He did end up going with it, and was able to recover his work. I've emailed him, asking him for the name of the app, and will repost when I hear.

Also, there was a HD Recovery thread a while back that mentioned SpinRite. It looks like SpinRite might work on for a Mac drive, if it's moved into a PC? I know nothing at all about this program, save the video that X-Dude linked to.

i'm about to try the image recall one and have bookmarked the spinright one. i wasn't able to get the drive to show up under xp so i'm not sure if that's going to help but i've marked it as well.

if you can get the name of the app from your friend that would be EXTREMELY helpful portnoy. i'm not to the point of panicing yet, but i am a bit freaked out as there were about 14 or 15 original tracks in the current production line up as well as three or four covers.

The app he went with was Data Rescue II from Prosoft Engineering. Again - the neat feature with their trial is that it shows you what files it can see/recover (but you can't recover them unless you buy the full version).

He also mentioned that, had the above not worked... his next step would have been to check out Nucleus Technologies.

Good luck with the recovery!

i'll vouche for data rescue as well, though i'm not sure if it works on os9? guess it probably doesn't matter since you boot from the cd. but i bought it myself a few weeks ago and it got 99% of my data back. and i think it might be able to get that other 1% back if i took the time to scrounge through the orphan files.

and you'll need a second drive to move the files to with data rescue.

ah, they have a classic version. score one for mos.

downloaded the trial. it could see the drive. says it's like 90 minutes to scan it.

you guys are awsome!

*makes note for inclusion in liner notes*

ya it took awhile to run the scan for me, actually quite awhile, but you can save the scan file then and not have to run it every time.

I've used diskwarrior several times, and it usually recovers 90-99% of the data.

diskwarrior actually doesn't actually recover anything, it repairs directories and permissions. but it can work for getting files back in that regard. i don't think they actually market it as file recovery software.

did you get your stuff back mosquito?

all but one track. i haven't finished backing them up, but i've posted about it on the site: chokingsun.com

one of my cousins added a photo gallery of him making our beer.

*goes to another thread to update*