[Chuckit]

I've got a disk here with some Very Important Files that I've been asked to try and recover. Neither Disk Utility nor the OS can see any volumes on it, though they can see the disk and offer to reformat it for me (obviously I'm saying no for now). Nobody has any idea what happened to the disk — apparently one second it was working and the next it was gone.

I bought DiskWarrior to run on the disk, but it won't list the disk as an option in the recovery popup menu — apparently it only lists mountable volumes, which, of course, there aren't any because the disk is messed up.

So, any ideas either to get DiskWarrior to do something with the disk or for something else that will?

[Big Mac]

I think you want Data Rescue II.

[AKcrab]

Originally Posted by Big Mac 

I think you want Data Rescue II.

If disk warrior and disk utility can't see it, odds are good data rescue isn't going to see it either. No harm in trying though.

[CharlesS]

You could send it to DriveSavers if the files are really important, but of course it'll cost you.

[Chuckit]

Thanks for the help, everybody. I gave Data Rescue a try, and it did seem to get further than the others, but still couldn't retrieve any data. I guess the drive is pretty well hosed. I'll give DriveSavers a call and see how much it will cost us. Just wanted to say thanks for the pointers, though.

[art_director]

You'd need a non-Mac machine to run the app but Spin Rite might do the trick. It's slow but nothing is better for such situations.