Re: End of file error in Norton Speed Disk under OS 9.2 with Firewire hard drives

In article <slrnhughlf.kli.g.kreme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Lewis
<g.kreme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I remember having to recover someone's hard drive after it had been
destroyed by Norton. I think it might have been version 5? Somwhere
around Mac OS 8.1 or so.

i do too, except that it was my own drive. it was 8.5 or 9.x time frame.

We got about 40% of the data back.

i got about 90% back, after a *lot* of effort.
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