data recovery service, catastrophic failure

[Lynn Newton]

> Do you have any way of yanking the precious drive and putting it in
> another, working machine? No need to boot from it, just get it in a
> working machine. If you can, then you may be able to get everything off
> of it yourself. If you can get to a Linux machine then it'll obviously
> be easier.

I don't have that luxury. I have a Linux P3 system that hasn't been booted
in nearly two years, but it doesn't support SATA drives.

My other two systems are both Macs.

> If not, check out sysresccd.org.

Okay, that looks interesting.

> You may be tempted to keep trying things with the old machine, but since
> it's being cranky and you don't really know why, I recommend getting the
> drive out of it ASAP.

This sounds like a wise recommendation. But then what do I do with
sysresccd once
i have it on a bootable disk? (Which I assume is the process.) Isn't the object
generally to perform operations on a sick disk in the system?


-- 
Lynn David Newton
Phoenix, AZ