[ale] Drive recovery

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Mark,

    I'm glad that I'm not the only one struggling with this.  I've had a 
number of occasions where I've accidentally deleted something (not 
'secure' deleted it, mind you), and had little or no success getting it 
back.  I've since been looking for this easy way that I had assumed 
everyone but me knew to recover files that weren't deleted securely.

Mark Wright wrote:

>
> I have a drive that I would like to recover data from.  Reading the  
> discussion about secure deleting of data was making me think.  This  
> drive has nothing wrong except the table of contents can't be read  
> and I cannot find any program or technique to read any data off it.   
> If this is a security problem why isn't it easier to read a damaged  
> disk?
>
> I purchased a program called Data rescue that has saved unreadable  
> zip disks for me but it cannot decode the data on this disk.  Data  
> rescue reads blocks of data into memory and compares it to known  
> format until it recognizes something.  I have let it run for weeks  
> with no success.  I suppose too much formatting info is missing.  I  
> know the data is laying out there to be read.  Anyone know of any  
> utilities to examine bits on a disk?  This is  a Mac OS9 formatted  
> disk, if it makes any difference.
>
> If it is this hard to pull any data off a corrupt disk I would say  
> that writing random data all across a hard drive to secure delete is  
> a waste of time.  Nobody would go through what I have gone through to  
> read this disk on a used purchase or a salvage disk  if they did not  
> know something valuable was there.
>
> Mark
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