[X-Newbies] Help! Total HD Meltdown

[Steven Rogers]

On May 23, 2005, at 9:40 AM, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:

> <deetya at cbn.net.id> wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> So, here are the questions:
>>
>> 1) Can my partition be fixed? Or is it lost forever?
>>
>> 2) If the partition is lost, is there any way to at least save the  
>> data?
>>
>> 3) What could've caused this? A crash due to a power outage? Somebody
>> (like my sister) messing around?
>>
>
> My first step would be to get a copy of Techtool Pro, Drive 10 or
> Diskwarrior and see if any of them can recover the damaged  
> partition. DW
> especially is a fantastic utility that has saved many a corrupted disk
> for me.

Just with the caveat that Vincent mentioned - be sure you try DW  
*before* you try anything else, including Disk Utility. Any other  
tool is likely to apply a "fix" that will hose it permanently.

SR