Hi Folks,
Please forgive me posting what is really a Mac question, but one which I am trying to solve via Linux. My muppet house mate has just managed to partition AND format the disk in his G4 MacBook, just before he realised that he had not made a copy of a rather important recording session. We have access to another G4 Mac with Firewire support on both machines so I can get to the blasted disk using target mode. I'm not a Mac user and from my looking on the web there do not seem to be any free Mac tools for a recovery situation like this, maybe DiskWarrior 4 but that is $99.95
I'm thinking that I could use an Ubuntu PPC live CD on the working Mac to allow me to mount the formatted disk and then use Linux tools to recover data, the trouble is that I have never had cause to do this before so I'm not really sure where to start. I know I can create a DD image of the drive but how do I go about searching the sectors to see if I can find the illusive recording session my housemate needs? Remember that this would have to be a live CD environment so default Ubuntu file tools would be best. Alternatively any other suggestions would be much appreciated...
I've looked at DarwinPorts to see if I could cut out the liveCD requirement but it seem you need the toolkit to compile - Am I missing something or would this involve spending money too?
The sanity of my domestic life is in your hands....!
Please forgive me posting what is really a Mac question, but one which I am trying to solve via Linux. My muppet house mate has just managed to partition AND format the disk in his G4 MacBook, just before he realised that he had not made a copy of a rather important recording session. We have access to another G4 Mac with Firewire support on both machines so I can get to the blasted disk using target mode. I'm not a Mac user and from my looking on the web there do not seem to be any free Mac tools for a recovery situation like this, maybe DiskWarrior 4 but that is $99.95
I'm thinking that I could use an Ubuntu PPC live CD on the working Mac to allow me to mount the formatted disk and then use Linux tools to recover data, the trouble is that I have never had cause to do this before so I'm not really sure where to start. I know I can create a DD image of the drive but how do I go about searching the sectors to see if I can find the illusive recording session my housemate needs? Remember that this would have to be a live CD environment so default Ubuntu file tools would be best. Alternatively any other suggestions would be much appreciated...
I've looked at DarwinPorts to see if I could cut out the liveCD requirement but it seem you need the toolkit to compile - Am I missing something or would this involve spending money too?
The sanity of my domestic life is in your hands....!