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Installed OS X possibly erased OS 9.1 hard drive
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Is there a program where I could possibly go into an erased hard drive and salvage some valuable pictures of my kids growing up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. And yes I know I'm a lunkhead for doing it. Thanks!
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diskwarrior might be able to help.
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If you erased the hard drive to install OS X, I doubt very much that you can recover the data, unfortunately.
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Originally posted by cpac:
diskwarrior might be able to help.
Yes, just like it might be able to un-assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
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I believe there are outside groups/businesses exist to try to do what you're looking for. Data Rescue, perhaps? Look online.
I hope you get them back. I'd be pretty devastated if I lost all my photos. And I know you're already kicking yourself for 1) doing it in the first place and 2) not having backups.
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You could try sending the HD in for data recovery. It's not cheap and there's no promise. Don't do anything to the HD until, otherwise you're 100% hosed.
Next time, get a backup plan, either DVDs or CDs or an iPod or external HD or all of them.
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Originally posted by Randman:
Don't do anything to the HD until, otherwise you're 100% hosed.
He said he installed OS X. That pretty much hoses it.
Data Recovery is very expensive and the results are NOT guaranteed. I have been there and done that many times over the years to try and recover the CEO's stupid mistakes or a sales rep trying to reinstall the OS themselves.
If he had only quick formatted the drive, there may have been a chance of getting files back.
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Originally posted by SMacTech:
He said he installed OS X. That pretty much hoses it.
Well, OS X is only a few GB and on a many GB large hard disk the pictures might have been located somewhere else. There is still a chance to possible get something back. Don't use the disk any more though.
Also, installing OS X doesn't usually format the disk (unless you explicitly ask it to). OS 9 documents are moved into an Documents (OS 9) folder at the root of the hard disk as far as I remember. Maybe that's where yours sill are and you just didn't notice.
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Originally posted by cpac:
diskwarrior might be able to help.
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I appreciate the time you all took to address my predicament. Onward and Upward! killroy6
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