A possible way to save a corrupted drive or partition

Dec 02, '05 05:21:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

An unhappy event happened to a cheese-maker friend -- he hadn't made any back-ups of his old G3 tower, and naturally the hard disk went down along with all the recipes of his award-winning cheeses. I tried all the usual -- TechTool, DiskWarrior, Disk Utility -- but they all just threw up their (figurative) hands in horror and simply gave up. (Disk Utility would see the disk, but not mount it).

In a fit of desparation, I told Disk Utility to make an image of the seen but un-mountable partitions. And quite surprisingly, it worked!

I have yet to verify that his important data is there (he lives a couple of hundred kilometres away, and won't be back here for a couple of weeks), but it all *seems* to be there. It reminded me of the good-old-Apple ][ days when a dead floppy could often be resurrected by simply copying it.

I hope that someone else may benefit from this simple fix.

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