Hi If you can try the disk in several different drives to see if any can read it. We have had some success with the latest norton utilities recovering data from bad hard drives (I think its Norton Utilities 3.0). It would be safer if you could copy the contents of the disk onto some space on the hard drive then work on that, if the disk is not recognized this would not be possible. If the disk contains really important data then it might be worth using a professional recovery service, at least if they fail its not YOUR fault. We have had most success using the un-erase function of norton. We sent out a hard drive to two recovery services to get them to recover some data, they both failed saying the directory structure was messed up and didn't recover a single data file. The good Dr Norton however managed to recover all data using the unerase command . There are several seach criteria that you can use to look for deleted files, you can seach by file type, you have to give it a few Cellquest files and it will look for files of a similar format or you can tell it to look for files containing something in the file itself for instance the file name or sample ID. The problem is that it will find the data fork and resource fork as different files, your actual data files (data forks) will now have numerical names. The file name will be in the file header so if you know the file names of each experiment you can recover data experiment by experiment. If the disk is full, recovering all the data at once into a single folder can be a bit of a problen as your MAC might have trouble opening the folder without crashing. You should be able to read the files in Cellquest and you will still have the sample ID to help you identify which files are which. You can also read the files with FloJo which can give you a list of files and can display pretty much anything in the header eg sample IDs, maybe original file names. The new utility program from Treestar may help with identifying and re-naming data forks after they are recovered check I have heard of reports of Norton Disk Doctor making things much worse, the un-erase option is probably the safest, it will not alter your data Re-installing the driver onto the disk may fix it, using the utility that you formatted the disk with. Comments in this e-mail are only opinions of the author who should not be held responsible for you losing all your data and getting fired! used multiple times you may have problems. If I were you I would use the un-erase command to recover data onto the hard drive then try with Disk doctor to repair the disk. Simon Monard Trudeau Institute Algonquin Avenue Saranac Lake NY12983 518 891 3080 X162
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