After many problem with an OSX install, I decided to just nuke the drive and
start from square one. I go to the Finder in OS9, click the drive icon...
and I'm sure you know the rest:

[zombie mode]"Special" -> "Erase Disk..." -> (OK)*click* [exit zombie mode]
"Oh, @#$%!"

I selected the wrong partition :p

Instead of wiping out my OSX install, I wiped out 8 gig of data on my file
dump partition, including every photo I've taken in the past year.

I got hold of a friend and borrowed Norton Utilities 7 (since I don't have
any sort of recovery software) and installed it. Stupid mistake, I know,
trusting Norton to do anything useful. But I installed it anywy... and it'll
be happy to recover files from the last FileSaver data it has... which it
has based on the freshly wiped drive.

I then grabbed the Data Rescue demo... which sees a few files, but nothing
that I don't already have archived elsewhere, unfortunately. It sees a lot
of Norton data files, though :p

So, off the top of folks' heads, is there any chance of unerasing this
drive, short of sending it out to have a pro look at it? I mean, all I did
was tell it to forget where the files on it were located... well, that, and
install Norton junk. Are there any other apps someone would suggest to fix
this?

--
"And as we drift along, I never fail | "It's the information age --
to be astounded by the things we'll | everything gets saved
do for promises... and a song." | except for the human soul."
-- Dio, "All The Fools Sailed Away" | Rev. Matthew Carey, Vision Temple

:(

Zaren Ankleweed wrote:
> After many problem with an OSX install, I decided to just nuke the drive and
> start from square one. I go to the Finder in OS9, click the drive icon...
> and I'm sure you know the rest:
>
> [zombie mode]"Special" -> "Erase Disk..." -> (OK)*click* [exit zombie mode]
> "Oh, @#$%!"
>
> I selected the wrong partition :p
>
> Instead of wiping out my OSX install, I wiped out 8 gig of data on my file
> dump partition, including every photo I've taken in the past year.
>
> I got hold of a friend and borrowed Norton Utilities 7 (since I don't have
> any sort of recovery software) and installed it. Stupid mistake, I know,
> trusting Norton to do anything useful. But I installed it anywy... and it'll
> be happy to recover files from the last FileSaver data it has... which it
> has based on the freshly wiped drive.
>
> I then grabbed the Data Rescue demo... which sees a few files, but nothing
> that I don't already have archived elsewhere, unfortunately. It sees a lot
> of Norton data files, though :p
>
> So, off the top of folks' heads, is there any chance of unerasing this
> drive, short of sending it out to have a pro look at it? I mean, all I did
> was tell it to forget where the files on it were located... well, that, and
> install Norton junk. Are there any other apps someone would suggest to fix
> this?
>

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