[NCLUG] dead drive

[Bryan Stillwell]

Well if it is an HFS+ partition, you can use the program hfsplus to
mount it.  On a Debian system, just do an `apt-get install hfsplus`, but
if you're not, it looks like you can download it here:

http://ftp.penguinppc.org/users/hasi/

Using it is a bit weird, but simple:

hpmount /dev/hda10   (or whatever the partition number is)
hpls -l              (to get a file listing)
hpcd Users           (ummm, guess)
hpcd bryan
hpcopy filename .    (copy filename from Users/bryan to cwd)
hpumount             (unmount filesystem)

Good luck,
Bryan

PS also you could always dd the partition and use some kind of
application that'll scan the resulting file for jpegs.  I remember a
program like this back in my DOS days, but don't know of anything under
Linux that'll do it.

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 03:32:54PM -0600, mike cullerton wrote:
>i'm using this on macos x. the problem is that nothing will mount it. i 
>was hoping that someone knew a way to tell it what kind of node structure 
>to use so i could force it to mount. and then hope i could get what i want 
>off it.
>
>it's basically a big incoming directory. mostly, the data isn't important.
>  but, there are some recent pictures i took with my digital camera that 
>only exist there.
>
>the sad thing is i was about to reformat it and put a new os on there 
>later that day.
>
>:(