[Joachim Ljunggren]

Hi.

My Firesmart Alu 200GB disk gave up on me last week. (It's a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 ATA/133 200gb inside the case).
After a period of problems with the drive spinning down while copying files, capturing DV, etc which resulted in hanged Finder I had to pull the firewire cable without unmounting the drive. This worked until last week.
Now when I connect the cable it says "Do you want to initialize och ignore" every time.

I've tried to repair it with Diskwarrior 3, Drive 10 and Norton (couldn't even find it). Put the drive in a stationary computer, all no results.
When I try Data Rescue X it scans the entire disk and after 2 hours it finds all my files, but it can't callibrate the Allocation Block Layout. So when I try to copy the files to a healthy drive they all are corrupt.

My question is.
Is there anyone that can help me with the Base Block value?
I think I've got the Block Size value right (8).
It has to be the exact same disk formatted with Apples diskutility to give me a useful number.

Or it may be another way to get my files back that I've missed?

The stupid thing is I've not backed up the disk and its worth 100gb of material that I've created and is very important to me. I guess I've learnt a lesson...

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

If it is really important you can send it to a drive recovery place. I am sure they can get back 95% of the files for you but it will cost you about $800.

[israces]

Originally posted by Joachim

When I try Data Rescue X it scans the entire disk and after 2 hours it finds all my files, but it can't callibrate the Allocation Block Layout. So when I try to copy the files to a healthy drive they all are corrupt.

My question is.
Is there anyone that can help me with the Base Block value?
I think I've got the Block Size value right (8).
It has to be the exact same disk formatted with Apples diskutility to give me a useful number.

Or it may be another way to get my files back that I've missed?

The stupid thing is I've not backed up the disk and its worth 100gb of material that I've created and is very important to me. I guess I've learnt a lesson...

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Just dealt with this myself. In Data Rescue X, go to the place where you can enter your own values for the block size manually. Enter the suggested values from what Data Rescue X suggested. Then select a .txt file or something that will preview with text. Keep adjusting the numbers in the data block selector until the jumbeld characters in the preview are replaced with readable text. That is your correct block size.