Driven

[kirinn]

For the most part I'm loving my new Mac Mini, but one thing about the transition didn't go so well - somehow, when moving over my external HD (which had always been a little flaky) to the new machine, it's file system got corrupted). OSX's built-in Disk Utility managed to repair the partition with my actual important backups, thankfully, but the

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[listener]

Gah, harddrive malfunction. That's always such terrible news.

(Also, yay, developer tools! Also also, maybe you can run Crawl now! *innocent*)

[kirinn]

Actually, it looks like 0.5.2 has a non-fink-requiring OSX build anyway, so I don't even need developer tools (and I"m not sure they installed fink automatically anyway).

[beth_leonard]

What was the disk recovery software you went with? Did you like it? I remember having had a similar problem and spending way too long doing research.

I'm still drooling after the 2600, but I think it's not a good idea for us. We game enough already.
--Beth

[kirinn]

Fortunately, I have another buyer interested in the 2600, or I'd have to make a saving throw against being evil to refrain from further tempting you to buy it.

I don't remember the exact name of the tool I found (not on my home computer right now); it was very bare-bones command-line, but it worked fine, and had a pretty comprehensive list of available file types to look for. I did have to look through my system profiler to find the correct /dev/rdisk number to feed it in order to get it to focus on a particular partition.

[kirinn]

Ok, the program I used was PhotoRec, part of the TestDisk suite; info and downloads can be found here:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

It looks like it runs on almost any OS. The step-by-step guide is helpful for navigating the text-menu options:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step