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jag17

Post subject: Powerbook G4 Mac Recovery

Posted: December 23rd, 2009, 8:34

Joined: May 19th, 2009, 5:05
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Location: Singapore

Hi

I have a Powerbook G4 hard disk with MacOS and with user data. It was accidentally reinstalled with Mac OS using the CD.Now the user has a fresh copy of MacOs and no data in it. All the previous data is no more accessible. I tried recovery using R-Studio but nothing was recovered.

Anybody knows better way of recovering ?

Thanks in advance

Cheers
-Jag

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jono-ats

Post subject: Re: Powerbook G4 Mac Recovery

Posted: December 23rd, 2009, 9:05

Joined: June 8th, 2006, 19:44
Posts: 3144
Location: Atlanta, GA

I don't think R-Studio is for Macs.

Find a program that works with the Mac HFS+ file system.

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mediaman

Post subject: Re: Powerbook G4 Mac Recovery

Posted: December 23rd, 2009, 9:07

Joined: September 11th, 2007, 13:35
Posts: 249

either way, just out of habit, i would always image the disk first and do your experiments on the second copy. It should be easy to image with any software as the disk probably has no errors.

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msurgeon

Post subject: Re: Powerbook G4 Mac Recovery

Posted: December 23rd, 2009, 10:54

Joined: August 14th, 2008, 10:39
Posts: 257
Location: Morris Plains, New Jersey

jono-ats wrote:

I don't think R-Studio is for Macs.

Find a program that works with the Mac HFS+ file system.

R-Studio does work for HFS and HFS+ file systems.

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Doomer

Post subject: Re: Powerbook G4 Mac Recovery

Posted: December 23rd, 2009, 11:06

Joined: September 29th, 2005, 12:02
Posts: 3577
Location: Chicago

And it works on Macs

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msurgeon

Post subject: Re: Powerbook G4 Mac Recovery

Posted: December 23rd, 2009, 11:20

Joined: August 14th, 2008, 10:39
Posts: 257
Location: Morris Plains, New Jersey

jag17 wrote:

Anybody knows better way of recovering ?

-Jag

If you ran a complete scan using R-Studio and it found nothing then you may have to settle for a raw recovery, i.e. recovery by file type without folder structures or filenames.
For this you can use either R-Studio or any other recovery software capable of raw recovery.

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jono-ats

Post subject: Re: Powerbook G4 Mac Recovery

Posted: December 23rd, 2009, 14:43

Joined: June 8th, 2006, 19:44
Posts: 3144
Location: Atlanta, GA

Y'all are right. I guess it's just that we don't use it with Macs. Sorry!

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thatdellguy

Post subject: Re: Powerbook G4 Mac Recovery

Posted: December 23rd, 2009, 19:00

Joined: August 19th, 2007, 17:30
Posts: 1898
Location: In your hard drive.

For some reason I have gotten better results with the Mac version over the PC version. I don't know why though.

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itconcept

Post subject: Re: Powerbook G4 Mac Recovery

Posted: December 24th, 2009, 3:21

Joined: August 24th, 2009, 6:01
Posts: 95
Location: U.A.E Dubai

Good Day
Try UFS Explorer i recovered before with this only this is best software for Mac Partitions.

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