heh, yea...so do I I love finding utilities that can do the jobs of the big players but dont cost a body part or so.. in this case, I actually had a corrupted partition table on a maxtor(again!) that the big recovery utils couldnt handle...I was about ready to give up whenI found this one...it handled it easily and totally restored eveything with zero file corruption (unlike what happens with alot of them)
The hack-a-mac installation built the Mac's 6 gig partition over my 150 gig NTFS partition. Since the mac partition contains the mac software, it's probable that I've lost at least ~ 6 gig of data. But since the drive hadn't been defrag'ed in a while, it's probable that many file fragments have been lost, resulting in more corrupted/lost files. Fortunately, that drive is only used for storage and doesn't contain any operating systems. I can still boot, and work, and there are no virtual drives on it, forcing more over-writing of data. I've downloaded a program called R-Studio Data Recovery which seems to be popular and recommended. If you guys know of a better app, please let me know. Any input is appreciated.
This begets a question: The 149 gig NTFS parition no longer exists and the big hard drive now only has a 6 gig Mac partition on it. Do you think I can restore the big NTFS partition that got lost?
I'm redhat certified and did linux verification for 3 years and I can tell you without any bias that linux is total crap. It's a total hack job. Millions of kernel versions, even more patches that windows, dependency hell, cryptic error messages, and shoddy device support. Example, firewire support was so crappy that Redhat dropped it instead of fixing it. For every one good programmer working on linux, there are 3 hacks adding crap to it.
It *should* be able to. there is only one way to find out for sure....try it. rockbox you really should have said that it is crap if you are looking for a Windows-like experience...if you enjoy messing with the internals of the systems and stuff like that...it is a dream...there is no such thing as something you cant change about how it works if you really want to. it is all about what you want in a OS as to whether or not it is crap
http://www.dumbentia.com/pdflib/moregeeky.pdf Well, gee-whiz, I could have told you Linux was crap! The first indicator that Linux is not to be toyed with is that educated, experienced, dare-I-say experts in the computing field couldn't even agree on how to pronounce the NAME of the OS. If they can't agree on one simple vowel, how are they going to be able to program under a unified platform? http://www.dumbentia.com/pdflib/moregeeky.pdf
