"etaka" <etaka@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:1118741805.238523.14470@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
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> Any Mac people out there who would know how to recover a crashed disk
> without resorting to professional help? I've got Norton Utilities, but
> I've never had to recover more than a single deleted file. At least I
> have two complete backup drives.
>

Do you believe the device to be physically malfunctioning or have you just 
screwed up the partition table? If the latter then I'm sure recovery of most 
of the data is possible - when the damn things stop spinning then you're 
basically fucked, unless you're willing to pay through the nose for a 
professional data recovery outfit to open up the drive, relocate the 
platters to another box and attempt to rescan.

I thought I'd actually try this out for fun on two identical 2 Gb (and 
therefore redundant) disks I had lying around (pRon server was down that 
week).  I had all the necessary tools - so I thought, but it soon become 
obvious why a professional outfit can charge $50 per gigabyte recovered.

--
jonathan