Just the other day I had a hard drive "stop mounting" with this type of message:
Disk Utility was no help. So I took it to a friend who has Disk Warrior. Again no luck.
After some research into other products, I saw that Data Rescue II by Pro Soft Engineering had a demo version. Download away.
Seems that it's a great product. At first it found no files - but I was trying to scan the partition. When I scanned the whole drive (not just the partition that wasn't mounting), then it provided a list of files for me to recover to another hard drive!
One interesting part of their philosophy is that recovery is a read-only operation. This is great because it prevents anything from being further corrupted by a repair gone wrong.
So now I'll be buying a copy and another 200+GB drive to recover my data onto.
Thanks Pro Soft Engineering for a great product.
On thing is odd though... why is it called Data Rescue II version 1.2? Wouldn't it just be version 2.2? :)
No comments:
Post a Comment