If you are in a situation where you wished you had a backup but you do not then this section maybe helpful.

Please keep in mind that the use of any recovery techniques or tools listed below may hinder or prevent a professional data recovery service from recovering your data. If you have important data that you must recover, then take it to a professional data recovery service with a clean room.

If you are not worried about the success of this recovery then the following links may be of use :

• dd_rescue
• dd_rhelp
• my rescue day
• Recovering dead hard drive (Mac OS X Hints)
• Disk Warrior (Mac OS X directory rebuilding tool)

Should you know of any good articles or tools on data recovery then please let us know.