On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 09:58:20PM -0500, John Meier wrote:
> any recommendations on software/hardware to extract data from a drive that
> is working but may have some fed up partition table present?
> 
> Something that will work with all OSes (mac, window and linux)?

The first recommendation is to get a bigger drive and stick it into
the same machine, then boot from a USB disk running Linux and make a
copy of the "bad" disk onto the larger disk, then run whatever tools
on the copy.

Here is a Linux that specializes in recovery tools and can be run from
USB drive:
   http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/

Cheers,
florin

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