Hey there,
Remember the good old days? Ah, yes, you had your SE/30 looking back at you on your desk and you were cranking out your work in Microsoft Works 3.0. You were so proud that your 80Mb hard drive was the biggest around and…16Mb of RAM? Man, that was cool. Then you went to your desk one morning, cup of coffee in hand, turned on your Mac, and…uh oh…a flashing “?”. No problem, you just reached for your box of utility disks and took out SUM II. Wait, don’t tell me you don’t remember Symantec Utilities for the Macintosh version II? Well, its just the next best thing to Norton Utiltities except it could do better and easier data recovery, oh yeah! You ran that sucker and got all your data back lickety-split. Yes, life was easy.
Now then, fastforward to the new millenium, you still have your SE/30, uh, somewhere, and you’ve got your PowerMac, G3 or G4 running all that latest and greatest with 64Mb of RAM and a 2Gb hard drive (at least). You have the same coffee cup in your hand, and you go to the same desk, turn on your Mac and…uh oh…a flashing “?“. SUM II doesn’t work anymore and Norton just doesn’t seem to make any sense. No, you didn’t install FileSaver and your last backup was when you tested the batteries in your smoke detector, so now what?! (Long suspenseful pause) Ah, da Mac man to the rescue!
You just gotta hear about what I found. There is a shareware program that I am gonna shamelessly plug ‘cuz it’s really good and will save your neck. It’s simply called Data Rescue 2.1.1. I found it when a crisis came up at work and I needed to find some data recovery software fast. I went to download.com and typed in “data recovery” in the search field at my favorite search website, and this is what I found. I must admit that I was skeptical but figured that I would give it a try. The demo worked great!! I plopped down the 39 bucks and got it registered and was able to recover all the data on a G3. I was a happy camper.
I’m not going to waste your time with all the technical jargon about what it can and cannot do. I will tell you that Data Rescue worked easily for me when Norton couldn’t do the job. It recovered the data that was damaged and did it in an easy to learn format (my kinda stuff). Go download it, try the demo, you’ll thank me later. I am your ever vigilant servant, da Mac man.
Catcha L8r, Eddie
PS To those of you that have written about the SCSI-USB column. I will be getting to that stuff next month. Right now, I gotta go check the batteries in my smoke detectors!
Ed Tobey
edtobey@hotmail.com
Website mentioned:
http//www.sonnettech.com
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