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Data Recovery from Unformatted drive
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posherov
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Oct 12, 2006, 02:55 PM
 
I purchased a new hard drive to back up some data, connected it to my Power Mac and it showed up without asking me to format it. I loaded it up with a bunch of data, but now cannot access the data because every time I restart the computer, I am asked to format this new hard drive (which would erase all the data). Does anyone know of any way that I can recover the data?

I have tried disk doctor and Norton's but those don't seem to be able to help.
Thanks for your help!
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discotronic
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Oct 12, 2006, 03:06 PM
 
Use Diskwarrior. Boot the system with the disk and it might be able to rebuild the drive without data loss.
     
   
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