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Recover a dead hard drive using dd
Authored by: peragrin on Mar 04, '05 01:07:37PM

I can't tell you the exact location of the unmounted drive. The easiest way is to hook it up to the enclosure and try to let OS X mount it. If it fails, You can use Diskutil to determine the /dev location of the drive.

There Is a commandline version of diskutil as well. just type man diskutil, into either the command line or google. If you are trying to figure out how to use a commandline tool and don't like man pages, you can use google to pull up html versions.

Just remember this creates one file the size of the formatted drive. so if it was 20gigs you have about a 20 gig file.

I never did a system 9 to OS X transition. I do know both used the same file system. So you have a good chance at getting data.

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