OFF-TOPIC-- Data recover from reinstalled Mac OSX

kesterkester has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greeting, Monks.

My apologies for the non-perl posting, but I am hoping someone in the Monks' great pool of talent and knowledge can help a friend of mine. Here is a snippet from his email:

I'm calling with a plea for help. PersonX's G3 ibook harddrive got wiped clean yesterday (it froze, PersonX called tech support, they had PersonX do a system reinstall..grr). PersonX's thesis was on there and we don't have backups. Does anyone out there know of anyway of at least attempting to recover some of the data?

In summary:

Thesis on hard drive
Mac OSX was reinstalled on hard drive
Bye, bye thesis

Does anyone know any techniques to attempt to recover the thesis, and/or a good data recovery firm the iBook could be shipped to, so that more than an object less on backup importance can come from this disaster?

Much thanks,

Kester

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Re: OFF-TOPIC-- Data recover from reinstalled Mac OSX by diotalevi (Canon) on Nov 10, 2004 at 22:14 UTC
Lazarus in The Coroner's Toolkit (TCT) will ressurect such things. See also Help! How do I recover that important file?. Keep in mind that though the information is UNIX-centric, you can run this against your raw device. I used this once to recover some data from an NTFS volumn from Windows NT 4.0 without ever having to convince my Linux computer to attempt to understand NTFS.	[reply]
Re^2: OFF-TOPIC-- Data recover from reinstalled Mac OSX by kesterkester (Hermit) on Nov 10, 2004 at 22:16 UTC
You've made a grad student very happy. Thank you!	[reply]