Data Recovery???

[pnoise]

After 4 days of sessions in last week. I returned home to NY witha 60 gig firewire drive full of session files and mixes. I went to listen (through itunes) to a full mix that I bounced before backing up all the sessions. While playing back an aiff, the system crashed. Upon rebooting the machine...I get an error message saying that there are serious errors reported on my firewire drive.

Using Norton Disk Doctor, I try to fix these damaged files indexes, all that stuff. After three ties, I get through the Disk Doctor process with all but 6 files repaired.

The next day I take the firewire drive to work, plug it in to my G4-based ProTools Mix3 system and I get another message saying the disk is damaged and major errors are reported. This time I try using disk warrior v2.1, to fix my problems. Well it suggests right away that I need to rebuild the volume wrapper and other directory related files. I've done this a hundred times and it has never come back with any headaches. Well this time...it appears to have deleted all my files. Or at least rewritten the directory in such a way that it can't see the data. What my computer said was a 95% full 60Gb firewire drive two days ago...is now telling me I have 55Gb of free space. It salvaged a few files, but not much of what I need. I'm pulling my hair out here.

Does anyone know much about what might have gone on in the disk warrior rebuild process. And moreso...does anyone have anybody they recommend for serious data recovery here in NYC. Thanks for any help you can throw my way.

Steve

[NK]

in NY there is a company: http://www.drivelabs.com/
(I have never used them)

The popular recovery specialists are
Ontrack.com
Drivesavers.com

There are many others as well.
It is very expensive though.

Do not attempt to use any more disk utilities, Norton, Disk Warior etc. In a serious crash/Mechanical failure even keeping the drive powered on can cause irrecoverable damage to the platter containing the Data. The best thing to do, is shutdown, power down the drive.
Contact the data recovery specialists and follow there instructions to get the drive into there hands. If it is a mechanical failure they have clean rooms where they physically remove the hard disk platter and move it to another mechanism to retrieve the data. Call them.

[Noiz2]

Try Data Rescue, it's a program people including me have had tremenously good results with. It's about $90 ,there may be a $40 one also?, but it has a free trial that will let you see what files it can recover and will let you recover one. You could in theory do your whole drive one at a time but it would take FOREVER.
Good luck