Stijn, that's an interesting point. What's even more weird is that I can still bring it up in PQMagic and see the "unallocated space" which used to be my drive. As far as PM is concerned, it's just not formatted anymore. I wonder if I could go poking into the partition table and just say, "Congratulations, you're formatted again!
" and make everything ok. But you're probably right -- it's time for this drive to go to that Big Computer in The Sky.
I'm running a demo of a program called Get Data Back right now, as recommended privately by another Pelican. It'll probably go for A Long Time. I'll see if it will let me recover anything, or how well it works, or what, and go from there. If I can back up a bunch of the data that way, then I might start playing with the partition table. What have I got to lose?
Thanks,
Dan