Need Advice: I just erased one of my hard disks!

[Floh Peters]

Under OS9 or OSX? As far as I know it is nearly impossible to recover deleted files from an OSX drive due to the way files are located there.

[Juanjo Mora]

Hi Floh,

I’m on a HDX, MacOS 10.4.8.

Yeah I know it’s nearly impossible! As I write this, I’m using FileSalvage from SubRosa Software to scan my disk and see if it can recover anything.

So far, it has scanned 5% of the 500GB disk and has found nothing. SubRosa’s website says there is a good chance of recovering some files with their long-names intact. So, I’m crossing my fingers and waiting for the best.

I’ll post later about how everything goes.

Thank for your support!

Regards,

Jj

[Jack Shepard]

I feel for you — I did the same thing a year ago.

From my experience is that it is possible sometimes to recover it – though a pain in the neck.
If you did a secure empty trash they are unrecoverable … if just a normal empty many are recoverable.
With Media 100 files though, I think you are out of luck as even if you did manage to recover them
the files names would change and they would never relink to your program.

From what I learned and went through, you can recover a good deal from a Hard Drive even on OSX.
However, the files will never be recoverable with the same names or in the same file structure. So say,
you erased a word file called newletter.doc. You could recover the file but it would end up being called
somethign like WordFile0004576896.doc.

I would recommend a program called Data Rescue (I believe they are on the second version). It recovered
a horde of files – though as I said their names were no longer the same.

Best of Luck,
Jack