hello,
I have a 60GB external firewire hard drive
(with lots of irreplaceable and important
stuff) that i use in OS9 on my iMac. I also
have OSX but rarely use it becuase i don't
like it very much...anyway, whenever my
computer crashes in OS9, when i restart
it, a message informs me "this disk is
unreadable by this computer. Do you
want to initialize the disk?"
which of course, I don't because it has
lots of stuff on it.
strangely enough, whenever i restarted
the computer in OSX, the hard drive would
appear, and then would go back to
normal when going back into OS9.
I figured this a strange quirk that i could
live with, however should have taken it as
a warning sign to back up my
stuff.....stupid hindsight.
anyway it crashed again, this time OSX
tells me"you have inserted a disk
containing no volumes that MAC OSX can
read...." pretty much the same message.
so now it seems inacessible.
does anyone know of a way of recovering
it? I understand going to a data recovery
place can be quite costly. Does Norton
utilities handle anything like this? Am i
screwed? Should i sever my reliances on
modern technology and goes and live in a
log cabin?
by the way, i don't think it is a problem of
physical damage, it makes no strange
sounds and hasn't (as far as i know)
been mishandled.
thanks for anyone who can shed any light
on this
-alex
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