[ale] SOLVED (probably) (NOT!) Re: Rescuing an OS X HD from Linux - partition table hosed

[William Fragakis]

look up data rescue. Good data recovery for the Mac. Not free but may be
worth the investment.

http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php

wf


On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 22:19 -0700, JK wrote:
> On 1/14/2010 6:10 PM, JK wrote:
> > Yes, I am a sinner with the self-followups; sorry.
> >
> > Turns out GNU parted has a much better understanding of OSX disks.
> > I have located the HFS filesystem and am happily fsck.hfsplus'ing
> > it now.
> 
> 
> "Happily" may have been an overstatement.  I am seeing a great
> many "{DRDY ERR}" status messages during the fsck process.
> It does seem to making progress, but  s l o w l y.
> 
> (Later) fsck.hfsplus says: "Unable to repair filesystem after
> 3 attempts."  However, I *was* able to mount the partition and
> see some files.  Attempts to copy led to the same behavior as
> the fsck: {DRDY ERR} messages all over the place.
> 
> Time to seek professional help?  Or is there something else I
> should try first?  (Other than telling the ex to make regular
> backups in the future, I mean.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- JK
> 
>