Directory damage

[Frank Dutra]

>At 7:50 AM -0800 2/7/03, Power Macintosh G4 List wrote:
>>Can any one suggest a way around directory damage without data recovery.
>>The material on the firewire disk that went down is very important to
>>me, and I can't get the disk to mount.  A friend looked it over, tried
>>to get it to work, and said that my directory was bad.  I recovered and
>>repaired another disk with a bad directory, but I lost all of the data
>>on it.


Another option available if you don't own a Disk Warrior or Tech 
Tools disk, is the shareware program DataRescue which has saved me a 
lot of sweat in the past. You can try it out and see if your data is 
recoverable by the program, although you can't save until registering 
($29 ?) with Kagi. You will need a disk with enough room to transfer 
whatever you had on the firewire drive, and you might loose some 
icons which may be a reason to use a recovery disk. On the plus side, 
you may be able to sleep better knowing your data is intact while 
waiting for a disk. It also will recognize unmounted volumes if I 
remember correctly.


Frank

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