I second this. I haven't used NU on OSX, but the last time I used it (5 years or so ago) it made matters worse, not better. Disk Warrior has always come through for me. In fact, if DW won't do it, the only pro who is likely to be able to do better is a speciality shop, at a very high price. On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Laurie A Duncan wrote: > If the drive exhibits problems while trying to retrieve data from it, my > professional advice is to follow the following path: > > 1st - repair volume with Disk Utility > 2nd - repair volume with Disk Warrior > 3rd - call a pro :) > > I keep Norton Utilities far away from any OS X system I care about. > Tech Tool Pro has it's merits as a consumer-level diagnostic tool, but I > don't find it particularly useful as a repair tool. Drive 10 is marginally > better as a repair tool and once in a blue mood I'll come across a volume > that Disk Warrior has trouble with, but Drive 10 is able to repair - so I > keep it around, but it's a last resort recommendation. > > That will be $90, please :) > > Laurie > > > On 7/27/05 10:37 PM, "Bill Fox" <wfoxjr at earthlink.net> wrote: > >> Laurie, if her disk was messed up when she lost power, which tool do >> you recommend, if any, to recover the data--NU, TTP4, other? A pro? ;-) >> >> On Jul 27, 2005, at 5:53 PM, Laurie A Duncan wrote: >> >>> If your Cube literally won't power up, there's nothing a firewire >>> connection >>> or target disk mode will help you with. What you want to do is >>> remove the >>> hard drive from the Cube and install it into your PowerMac G4 or >>> into an >>> external firewire enclosure so that you can retrieve data from it. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Cube mailing list >> Cube at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/cube >> >> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: >> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Cube mailing list > Cube at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/cube > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >