Hey all.

Recently, through a great act of stupidity on my part (I won't share the
incriminating details), I managed to kill my external 3gig drive. I mean,
this thing was dead. DFA and Norton couldn't even tell it existed. SCSI
Probe was able to see the physical disk and I could flash the LED (great,
huh?) - but when I tried to mount it, the error I got was that no HFS
partitions existed. Not good. Not good at all.
I suspect that the problem was that the driver was corrupted/erased, which
lead to the "no volume" error.

I had almost given up, when I was informed about a program called Data Rescue

http://www.wildbits.com/rescue/index.html

Now, I don't know if this program is old hat to any of you, but it was
certainly news to me. Basically what it does is search your disk catalog
and find all the files. I had thought this was only possible by going to a
specialist and laying out $$$.
The thing is (fairly steep) shareware at $39. I think that's a pretty fair
price, though, for 2.5 gigs of irreplaceable stuff.

Anyway, just thought it might come in useful to some of you.

Dan